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CONTENTS

Classics of Anarchism, Mutualism, Decentralism
More Recent Works on Decentralism and Bottom-Up Social  Organization
Getting from Here to There
Issues of Economic Centralism, Efficiency and Economy of Scale
Primitive Accumulation, Statist Origins of Capitalism
Modern State Capitalism
New Class Elitism/Social Engineering
Globalization
Police State (and other aspects of Neoliberal revolution since 1970)
Information Control and the Cultural Apparatus
Resistance

 

Classics of Anarchism, Mutualism and Decentralism

Gilbert Keith Chesterton.  "The Meaning of Merry England"  Chapter VIII of A Short History of England (1917)  http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/history.txt

Charles A. Dana.  "Proudhon and His Bank of the People"  (New York: Benj. J. Tucker, Publisher 1896).  http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/proudhon/dana.html

Voltairine de Cleyre.  "Anarchism and American Traditions"  http://www.infoshop.org/texts/voltairine_traditions.html

P. E. De Puydt.  Panarchy.  Translated from French by John Zube, Adrian Falk (first published in Revue Trimestrielle, Brussels, 1860)  http://www.panarchy.org/depuydt/1860.eng.html

Clifford Hugh Douglas.  Social Credit (1924, 1933) http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/socialcredit/socialcredit.htm

Henry George.  Progress and Poverty (1879).  Abridged online text at http://www.henrygeorge.org/pplink.htm

George.  Social Problems (1883).  http://schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/spcont.html

Silvio Gesell.  The Natural Economic Order  translated by Philip Pye M.A.  http://www.systemfehler.de/en/neo/index.htm

William Godwin. An Enquiry  Concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793) http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/godwin/pj.htm

William P. Greene. Mutual Banking (New York: Gordon Press, 1849, 1974).   http://www.the-portal.org/mutual_banking.htm 

Thomas Hodgskin. Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1969 [1825]).http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/econ/labdef.htm

Hodgskin. Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)

Pyotr Kropotkin.  "Anarchism"  Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910  http://www.blackcrayon.com/page.jsp/library/britt1910.html

Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread 1st edition (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906) http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/conquest/toc.html

Kropotkin. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/mutaidcontents.html

Kropotkin. The State: Its Historic Role (London: Freedom Press, 1946). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/state/state_toc.html

James J. Martin. "Bibliographical Essay" (on individualist anarchism)
http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/matsbibl.shtml

Martin.  Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908. [the single best general source on American individualist anarchism]

Chapter 5 online  http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/matschap5.html

Chapter 6 online  http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/matschap6.html

Jeff Riggenbach.  "James J. Martin, 1916-2004" May 18, 2004
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/riggenbach.php?articleid=2593

Albert J. Nock.  Our Enemy the State (1935).  http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html

Franz Oppenheimer.  The State (New York:  Free Life Editions, 1975)  http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/st/state0.htm

Oppenheimer.  "A Post Mortem on Cabridge Economics"  American Journal of Economics and Sociology 2:3 (1942/43); 2:4 (1943); 3:1 (1944)  http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/fo43a.htm

Eduard Heimann.  "Franz Oppeheimer's Economic Ideas"  Social Research (New York) 11:1 (February 1944) pp. 27-39.  http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/eh44a.htm

Thomas Paine.  Agrarian Justice (1797)  http://geolib.pair.com/essays/paine.tom/agjst.html

Lucy Parsons.  "The Principles of Anarchism"  http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/writings/principles_of_anarchism.html

P. J. Proudhon. The Principle of Federation. Translated by Richard Vernon (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1979 [1863]).

Proudhon. General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by John Beverly Robinson (New York: Haskell House Publishers, Ltd., 1923, 1969 [1851])

Proudhon.  System of Economical Contradictions:  or, the Philosophy of Misery
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ProMise.html

Proudhon.  What is Property? (1840-42)http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/proudhon/ProudhonCW.html

J. B. Robertson. The Economics of Liberty. (Mineapolis: Herman Kuehn, 1916).

Thomas Skidmore.  The Rights of Man to Property (New York, 1829) http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/doct/829RMP.html

The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties (London:  Rodwell and Martin, New-Bond Street, 1821) http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/source%20and%20remedy.pdf

Introduction by Tom Walker of the Work Less Party  http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/srintro.pdf

Herbert Spencer.  "The Right to Ignore the State."  Chapter XIX of the 1851 edition of Social Statics, dropped from later editions. 

Lysander Spooner. Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking (Worcester, Mass.: M. D. Phillips, 1843). http://www.lysanderspooner.org/constitutionallaw.htm 

Spooner. An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852) http://www.lawcasella.com/spooner/TrialByJury.htm

Spooner. Natural Law  http://www.econgov.org/articles/naturallaw.shtml

Spooner. A New System of Paper Currency (Boston: Stacy & Richardson, 1861). http://www.lysanderspooner.org/papercurrency.htm

Spooner. Poverty: Its Illegal Causes, and Legal Cure. Part I (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846). http://www.lysanderspooner.org/Poverty.htm

Max Stirner.  The Ego and His Own.  A Reproduction of the First English Edition.   Translated from the German by  Steven T. Byington.  (New York:  BENJ. R. TUCKER, Publisher, 1907).
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/stirner/theego0.html

Clarence Swartz.  What is Mutualism? (Vanguard Press:  April 1927)  [excerpt]  http://www.daft.com/~rab/liberty/history/mutualism.html

Henry David Thoreau.  "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government)" 1849
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/thoreau1.html

Benjamin Tucker. Individual Liberty http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker.html [a radically streamlined version of Instead of a Book]

Tucker.  "The Life of Benjamin Tucker"  http://www.zetetics.com/mac/articles/tuckerauto1.html

Tucker.  Instead of a Book: By a Man Too Busy to Write One. (New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1897 1969). [rich, massive compilation of Tucker's writings from the journal Liberty.]

Josiah Warren.  Equitable Commerce. Revision of 1846 edition (New York: Burt Franklin, 1852).

Victor S.  Yarros.  "The Course of Social Reform and Political Psychology"  American Journal of Sociology Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 77-89. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992233/99p0084v/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3

Yarros.  "The Labor Question and the Social Problem"  American Journal of Sociology Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 768-90.  http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992190/99p0335t/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3

Yarros "Social Science and 'What Labor Wants'" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 308-322.  http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992247/99p03982/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3

Yarros.  "Taxation and the Philosophy of the State" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 4 No. 6, pp. 758-64.  http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992160/99p0365p/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3

Yarros.  "The Trust Problem Restudied"  American Journal of Sociology Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 58-74.  http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992179/99p0179z/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3

The Levellers

Christopher Hill.  "Gerard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston"  Kingston University, January 24, 1996.  http://www.kingston.ac.uk/cusp/Lectures/Hill.htm

The Levellers Vindicated (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/case.htm

John Lilburne et al.  An Agreement of the Free People of England (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/leveller.ht

Lilburne.  England's New Chains Discovered (1648)
http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/newchai1.htm  Part II  (1649)  http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/newchai2.htm

Cornet William Thompson.  England's Standard Advanced  (1649)
http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/thompson.htm

"The True Levellers Standard Advanced: Or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men"  (1649)
http://www.diggers.org/diggers/tlsa.htm

Gerard Winstanley.  "A Declaration from the Poor oppressed People OF ENGLAND"   (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/poor.htm

Winstanley.  "A Letter to the Lord Fairfax and His Councell of War" (1649)  http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/letter.htm

Winstanley.  "A New Yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie" (1650)  http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/gift.htm

 

More Recent Works on Decentralism and Bottom-Up Social Organization

Herbert Agar and Alan Tate, eds. Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 1936, 1999). [a companion book to I'll Take My Stand]

Todd Altman.  "The Democratic Freedom Caucus:  The Democratic Party's Last Hope?" The Progress Report, December 31, 2003   http://www.progress.org/2003/altman04.htm

David Beato.  From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State:  Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (Chapel Hill, N.C.:  UNC Press, 2000).

Beato.  The Voluntary City:  Choice, Community, and Civil Society (University of Michigan Press, 2003).

Yochai Benkler.  "Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production" Yale Law Journal 2004  http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_FINAL_YLJ114-2.pdf

"Ralph Borsodi:  The Plowboy Interview"  Mother Earth News No. 26 (March-April 1974) http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/Brsdi.intrvw/The%20Plowboy-Borsodi%20Interview.htm

Harry C. Boyte. The Backyard Revolution: Understanding the New Citizen Movement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980). [This book contains a wealth of material on so many subjects it's hard to classify under one heading. Besides what the title suggests, it also has heavily annotated chapters on the rise of corporate liberalism and the contemporary rule of the New Class, and on the new elite neoliberal consensus of the 1970s]

Elizabeth Brubaker.  "Nature's Case for Restoring Strong Property Rights" Prepared for the Fraser Institute's
Student Seminar on Public Policy Issues, November 5, 1994  http://www.environmentprobe.org/enviroprobe/pubs/ev627.htm

Ken Darrow and Mike Saxenian. Appropriate Technology Sourcebook. Volunteers in Asia/Appropriate Technology Project (Stanford, 1993).

David De Leon. The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).

Brian Doherty.  "Libertarians and Greens:  Room for Alliance?"  Reason Hit&Run August 2, 2004
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2004/08/libertarians_an.shtml

Logan Ferree.  "Building a Pro-Liberty Democratic Party"  Democratic Freedom, December 28, 2003
http://democraticfreedom.blogspot.com/2003_12_28_democraticfreedom_archive.html#107264939246733236

Ferree.  "A Call for Libertarians to Reform the Democratic Party" Democratic Freedom, September 6, 2003
http://democraticfreedom.blogspot.com/2003_08_31_democraticfreedom_archive.html#106282920525895039

Matthew H. Fleming, John Roman, Graham Farrell.  "The Shadow Economy"  Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2000, 53, no. 2  http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/media/farrell_capstone_final.pdf

Fred Foldvary.  "The Completely Decentralized City:  The Case for Benefits Based Public Finance"  The American Journal of Economics and Sociology,  January 2001
http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_1_60/ai_74643773

Larry Gambone.   For Community. The communitarian anarchism of Gustav Landauer, the origins of his thought and influence  (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 2001)  http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=2428

Gambone.  The Impossibilists (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 1995)  http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Imposs/Impossibilists1.htm 

Larry Gambone.  The Libertarian Movement in Chile. 1840 to the Present
http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=2423

Larry Gambone. "Move over Karl, Anarchism Is Back! (Review of Kevin A. Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy)" http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=2463

Gambone. "The Plague of Law Locusts"  The Individual July 2004    www.individualist.org.uk/2004julyindiv_em.pdf

Gambone.  Proudhon and Anarchism:  Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 1996)  http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/proudhon/sp001863.html

Gambone.  Reform and Revolution: Moderates and Revolutionaries in the French CGT  (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 1995) http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/history/cgt.htm

Gambone.  "The Spanish CGT" (22 Oct 2004)  http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=2464

Gambone.  Syndicalism in Myth and Reality (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 1995)  http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/theory/myth.htm

Gambone.  "The Way It Was (And the Way It Can Be)" The Idyllic Aug. 9, 2003  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=30

Paul and Percival Goodman.  Communitas:  Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (Vintage Books, 1947).

Paul Goodman.  "The Black Flag of Anarchism"  http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/GoodmanBlackFlag.htm

Goodman. Compulsory Miseducation (Horizon Press, 1962)

Goodman. People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province (New York: Vintage, 1968).

Goodman. Reflections on Drawing the Line http://www.hamline.edu/personal/jgeorge/drawing.pdf

Goodman. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals (New York: Vintage, 1964).

Richard Wall.  "The Radical Individualism of Paul Goodman"  LewRockwell.Com February 28, 2003.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/wall10.html

Andre Gorz.  Critique of Economic Reason, Chapter Three.  "Summary for Trade Unionists and Other Left Activists" http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/gorz.html

Thomas H. Greco, Jr.  New Money for Healthy Communities (Thomas H. Greco, Jr.:  Tucson, 1994)
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/NMfHC/toc.html

Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, (NEFAC-Vermont).  "Neither Washington Nor Stowe: Common Sense For The Working Vermonter" (July 2004)  http://nefac.net/node/1416

Spencer Heath.  "The Alternative Georgist Tradition"  Fragments, Summer/Fall, 1997 (June 1,
1997) http://www.heartland.org/pdf/80644l.pdf

Karl Hess. Community Technology (Breakout Productions reissue, 1995).

Karl Hess.  "The Death of Politics"  Playboy March 1969
http://fare.tunes.org/books/Hess/dop.html

Hess, and David Morris. Neighborhood Power: The New Localism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975).

"Karl Hess:  The Plowboy Interview"  Mother Earth News No. 37 (Jan-Feb. 1976) http://www.motherearthnews.com/menarch/archive/issues/037/037-006-01.htm

James Boyd.  "From Far Right to Far Left--and Farther--With Karl Hess"  New York Times Magazine, December 6, 1970. 
http://fare.tunes.org/books/Hess/from_far_right_to_far_left.html

Ivan Illich.  "A Constitution for Cultural Revolution"  from Celebration of Awareness (London:  Calder and Boyas, 1971)  http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/const_revolution/const_revolution.html

Illich. Deschooling Society  (1970).   http://www.pkimaging.com/mik/infoall/illich/iitext/1desch.html

Illich.  Disabling Professions (London: Calder & Boyars, 1979).

Illich. Energy and Equity (London: Calder & Boyars, 1974) http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/energy_and_equity/energy_and_equity.html

Illich.  Silence is a Commons  (1983)  http://www.oikos.org/illsilence.htm

Illich.  Tools for Conviviality   http://homepage.mac.com/tinapple/illich/1973_tools_for_convivality.html

Illich.  Vernacular Values.  A series of 1980 essays in CoEvolution Quarterly on which Shadow Work (1981) was based  http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Vernacular.html

Illich.  "The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr"  from Resurgence 184  http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/184/illich.htm

"Ivan Illich with Jerry Brown"  KPFA  March 22, 1996  http://homepage.mac.com/tinapple/illich/1996_illich_and_brown.html

Richard Wall. "A Turbulent Priest in the Global Village" LewRockwell.Com January 4, 2005  http://www.lewrockwell.com/wall/wall28.html

"Interview with Sam Smith" (Adam Engel) Counterpunch November 14, 2003 http://www.counterpunch.org/engel/11142003.html

Jane Jacobs  Interview.  Conducted by Jim Kunstler Sept. 6, 2000  for Metropolis Magazine  (March 2001) http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm

Dr. Bob James.  Craft, Trade, or Mystery: Part One - Britain from Gothic Cathedrals to the Tolpuddle Conspirators  (January 2001; Revised May 2002) http://www.takver.com/history/benefit/ctormys.htm

James.  "Mutuality"  Paper delivered at Australian Friendly Society Association's (AFSA)
NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Coffs Harbour, May 2000 http://www.takver.com/history/mutual.htm

James.  "Secret Handshakes and Health Care in Australia"  in celebration of the Sesquicentenary of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows (Newcastle: July, 1998) http://www.takver.com/history/guoof1.htm

James.  "Secret Societies and the Labour Movement" Part 1 of a pamphlet produced by Bob James for the 6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, held 1-4 October 1999 in Wollongong  http://www.takver.com/history/secsoc01.htm  Part 2, titled "The Knights of Labour and Their Context" http://www.takver.com/history/secsoc02.htm

James.  "The Tragedy of Labour History in Australia" Talk given at the Wollongong Labour History Society in August 1997 http://www.takver.com/history/tragedy.htm

Warren Johnson. Muddling Toward Frugality. (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1978).

Adam Johnston.  "What is Market Socialism?" (2004)
http://www.democraticeconomy.bravehost.com/marketsocialism.html

Bill Kauffman.  "My America vs. the Empire"  Counterpunch June 25, 2003  http://www.counterpunch.org/kauffman06252003.html

Kauffman.  "Think Locally, Act Locally, Live Locally:  Education on the Human Scale"  http://www.fww.org/articles/congres1/bkauffma.htm

Kauffman.  "The Way of Love:  Dorothy Day and the American Right"  Whole Earth Summer 2000  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0GER/2000_Summer/63500751/p1/article.jhtml?term=dorothy%2BDay

Daniel Kinderman.  "The Janus-Faced Nature of Working-Time Reduction:  Between Rationalization Whip  and Instrument for Social Justice"  http://www.web.net/~pef/dkinderman.pdf

Steven Leikin.  The Practical Utopians:  American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age  (Wayne State University Press, 2005).  http://wsupress.wayne.edu/labor/leikinpu.htm

Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searles, David Weinberger.  The Cluetrain Manifesto:  The End of Business as Usual (Perseus Publishing, 2001).  http://www.cluetrain.com/book/index.html 

Roderick T. Long.  "Anarchy Plus"  Austro-Athenian Empire, November 17, 2004 http://praxeology.net/unblog11-04.htm#20

Long.  "How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis:  Medical Insurance that Worked — Until Government 'Fixed' It"  Formulations (Winter 1993-94)  http://libertariannation.libertyserver.com/a/f12l3.html

Ken MacLeod.  "Libertarianism, the Loony Left, and the Secrets of the Illuminati"  Libertarian Alliance, Personal Perspectives No. 10 (1998)  http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/persp/persp010.pdf

Brian Martin. "Demarchy:  A Democratic Alternative to Electoral Politics"  Kick It Over #30 (Fall 1992), pp. 11-13.  http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/92kio.html

Race Matthews.  "Jobs of Our Own:  A Distributist Future for Australia"  Lecture delivered to G.K. Chesterton Society of Western Australia, May 27, 1999.
http://www.capitalownership.net/lib/Mathews2.htm

Matthews.  "Mutualist Options for Employee Ownership, Industrial Democracy and Workplace Reform."  http://www.capitalownership.net/lib/MathewsMutuality_Chapter.htm

Matthews.  "Recovering Our Roots: Mutualism, Mutuals and the ALP"  Paper delivered at the Australian Fabian Society/Pluto Press Conference "Unchain My Mind: New Social-Democratic Ideas for Labor in Government", Melbourne, 27 July, 2000  http://www.takver.com/history/mutual2.htm

Andrew McLeod.  "Training for Democracy"  Grassroots Economic Organizing (2001)
http://www.geo.coop/tdemo.pdf

"Ralph Nader:  Conservatively Speaking"  Pat Buchanan interview.  The American Conservative, June 21, 2004  http://www.amconmag.com/2004_06_21/cover.html

Thomas H. Naylor.  "The Vermont Manifesto"  http://www.progress.org/2003/vermont1.htm

Robert Nozick. Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Basic Books, 1974).

Joe Peacott.  "An Anarchist Case Against Gun Control"  BAD Broadside #16 (April 1997)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badbsd16.htm

Peacott.  "Free Trade is Fair Trade:  An Anarchist Looks at World Trade"  Bad Press Broadside #3 (Jan. 2000)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badpbsd3.htm

Peacott.  "Health Care Without Government"  Economics Notes No. 98 (Libertarian Alliance, 2003)  http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn098.pdf 

Peacott.  "Individualism, Anarchy, and Compassion"  BAD Broadside #14 (Feb. 1996)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badbsd14.htm

Peacott.  "Individualism and Inequality"  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/TL%20anarchy%20and%20inequality.htm

Peacott.  "Individualism Reconsidered"  (Nov. 1993; Revised Feb. 2001)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badpp3.htm

Peacott.  "An Overview of Individualist Anarchist Thought"  Economics Notes No. 97 (Libertarian Alliance, 2003)  www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn097.htm

Peacott.  "The Poverty of the Welfare State"  BAD Broadside #18 (April 1998)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badbsd18.htm

Kevin Potvin.  "The Corporation Leads to Ruin"  The Republic August 5-18, 2004  http://republic-news.org/archive/94-repub/94_potvin_corporation.htm

Potvin.   "Whose Economy is This, Anyway?"  The Republic August 19-September 1, 2004  http://republic-news.org/archive/95-repub/95_potvin_economy.htm

Kenneth Rexroth.  Communalism:  From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century  (Seabury Press, 1974).
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism.htm

"The Social Lie" (Kenneth Rexroth interview)  from Lawrence Lipton’s The Holy Barbarians (Messner, 1959). 
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sociallie.htm

Jerry Reynolds  "The Case for Local Currencies"  Indian Country.   Part I (January 19, 2004)  http://indiancountry.com/?1074528444  Part II (January 27, 2004)  http://indiancountry.com/?1075220028  Part III (February 18, 2004)  http://indiancountry.com/?1077116399

Francois-Rene Rideau.  "Public Goods Fallacies:  False Justifications for Government"
http://fare.tunes.org/liberty/public_goods_fallacies.html

Clarence Riegel.  The New Approach to Freedom.  Edited by Spencer Heath McCallum (San Pedro, Cal.:  The Heather Foundation, 1976).
http://www.newapproachtofreedom.info/Documents/NewApproach.pdf

Riegel.  Private Enterprise Money:  A Non-Political Money System (1944)
http://www.newapproachtofreedom.info/pemExplanation.php

Craig Russell.  "Defining Freedom"  Strike the Root weblog, September 17, 2003  http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/russell/russell30.html

Russell.  "Homogenizing America" Strike the Root, November 14, 2003  http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/russell/russell34.html

Russell.  "Learning From Wood"  Endervidualism  November 30, 2004  http://www.endervidualism.com/craigr/learning_from_wood.htm

Russell.  "Our American Nonage" Strike the Root September 4, 2003  http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/russell/russell28.html

Kirkpatrick Sale. Human Scale. (New Yok: Coward, McCann, Geoghegan, 1980).

William Schnack.  "Libertarian Market Socialism:  or, What is Self-Management?"  http://www.geocities.com/obliterate_the_state/libmarksoc.html 

Friedrich Schneider, Dominik Enste.  "Hiding in the Shadows:  The Growth of the Underground Economy" Economic Issues No. 30 (International Monetary Fund, 2002)  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues30/

Butler Shaffer.  "What is Anarchy?"  January 13, 2004.   http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer60.html

Henry J. Silverman, ed. American Radical Thought: The Libertarian Tradition (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1970).

Sam Smith.  "A Cooperative Commonwealth," from Great American Political Repair Manual (WW Norton, 1997)  http://prorev.com/coopcom.htm

Jeffrey St. Clair.  "What Would Lilburne Do?  Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe"  March 20/21, 2004 
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair03202004.html

S. Stavrianos. The Promise of the Coming Dark Age (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1976).

Dan Sullivan.  "Greens and Libertarians:  The Yin and Yang of Our Political Future"  Green Revolution 49:2 (Summer 1992)  http://geolib.pair.com/essays/sullivan.dan/greenlibertarians.html

Twelve Southerners. I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Baton Rouge and London: LSU Press, 1930, 1958). [the manifesto of the Nashville agrarians]

Joseph R. Stromberg.  "Left and Right:  An Outworn Framework" Whole Earth, Summer 2000.  http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/378.html

Peter Vallentyne.  "Libertarianism"  Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/

Jesse Walker.  "Lobotomies, Socialist and Capitalist"  Reason December 2001 [review of Ronald Radosh's Commieshttp://www.reason.com/0112/cr.jw.lobotomies.shtml

Walker.  "Sam Smith:  the Three-Dot Interview."  for KSER, Seattle, 1997  http://jessewalker.blogspot.com/2004_01_18_jessewalker_archive.html#107498929442442139

Jesse Walker.  "The War Between the Statists" Tech Central Station October 8, 2004  http://techcentralstation.com/110804E.html

Colin Ward. "The Anarchist Sociology of Federalism" Freedom June 27 and July 11 1992.  http://library.nothingness.org/articles/anar/en/display/334

Ward.  "Origin of the Welfare State" Freedom June 1959.

Ward. "The Path Not Taken" The Raven No. 3, 1987

Ward.  "Six Centuries of Squatting" Chapter Eight of Squatting: the real story http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/story/ch8.htm

Ward. "Slippery Schooling Issues" Freedom Press, Aug. 21, 1999 http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/ra_forum/en/people/ward_colin/schooling_issues.html

Ward. "What Will Anarchism Mean Tomorrow?" http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/ra_forum/en/people/ward_colin/anarchist_history.html

Karl Williams.  "Geonomics:  A Summary for Newcomers"  http://www.taxreform.com.au/essays/geonomic.htm

Robert Anton Wilson.  Online Texts.  http://www.deepleafproductions.com/wilsonlibrary/authors/RobertAntonWilsontexts.htm

Claire Wolfe.  "How to Avoid Work"  Backwoods Home, Oct. 1, 2004  http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe041001.html  Part II  (October 15, 2004)  http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe041015.html

I. B. Ybarra.  "Rent--An Injustice"  The Match! Pamphlet Series, August 1984 http://members.efn.org/~jamesd/UnjustRent.html

 

Getting From Here to There

Beyond Left and Right issue, Whole Earth Summer 2000 http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/FeaturesIssue.html (scroll down to issue).

David M. Boje.  "Ten Solutions to Transform Victorian Capitalism into Democratic Capitalism" (June 17, 1998)  http://cbae.nmsu.edu/mgt/handout/boje/solviccap/

Chaz Bufe.  Listen Anarchist! (1987)  http://www.seesharppress.com/listen.html

Roy A. Childs, Jr.  "Objectivism and the State:  An Open Letter to Ayn Rand"  (ISIL, 1969).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/childs1.html

Julian Dibbell.  "We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin"  Wired November 2004  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

Brian A. Dominick.  Grassroots Revolutionary Strategy (Book in Progress)  http://www.zmag.org/AWatch/

Dominick. "An Introduction to Dual Power Strategy" http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2403.shtml

Brad Edmonds.  "Why Abolishing Government Would Not Bring Chaos"  LewRockwell.Com December 15, 2003  http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds162.html

Thomas Frank.  "The Elitism Myth" 
http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10070

Larry Gambone.  "An Alternative Union Movement"  The Republic, Nov. 25-Dec. 8, 2004  http://republic-news.org/archive/102-repub/102_gambone.htm

Gambone. "Anarchist Strategy Discussion" unpublished.

Gambone.  For Community:  The Communitarian Anarchism of Gustav Landauer (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 2001)  http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/landauer/forcommunity.html

Gambone.  "The Fallacy of Labels"  The Idyllic July 30, 2003  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=20

Gambone. Sane Anarchy (Red Lion Press, 1995).

Larry Gambone.  "Secession Movements" The Idyllic June 15, 2004  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=77

Larry Gambone.  "Toward Post-Modern Anarchism" (Montreal:  Red Lion Press) http://www.postanarki.net/gambone.htm

Gambone. "What is Anarchism?" Total Liberty vol. 1 no. 3 Autumn 1998. http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/tl/sp001872.html 

Gambone.  "What is Populism?"  (Montreal:  Red Lion Press, 1996) http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=87

Mark Gillespie.  "Anarchist Finance, or What Price Ancapistan?" January 26, 2004  http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/gillespie/gillespie2.html

Gillespie.  "Just Plain Anarchy" November 17, 2003  http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/gillespie/gillespie3.html

Anthony Gregory.  "Libertarianism *is* Radical--Deal With It"  Rational Review, October 13, 2003
http://www.rationalreview.com/guest/101303.shtml

Joe Guinan.  "Pension Fund Socialism:  The Left Needs a Capital Strategy" (2003)  http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=330

James Herod.  Getting Free:  A sketch of an association of democratic, autonomous neighborhoods and how to create it.  2004
http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/C.htm

Jane Jacobs.  Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (New York:  Vintage Books, 1984, 1985).

Jacobs.  The Economy of Cities (New York: Vintage Books, 1969, 1970).

Bill Kauffman.  "Hey Ralph, Why Not Another Party of the People?"  March 11, 2004  http://www.counterpunch.org/kauffman03112004.html

Samuel Edward Konkin III. New Libertarian Manifesto. http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/nlm/nlm.html

"Interview With Samuel Edward Konkin III" (2002)
http://www.spaz.org/~dan/individualist-anarchist/software/konkin-interview.html

Lil Joe.  "Reparations and Class Politics in America" February 22, 2004.  http://laborpartypraxis.org/reparations.html

Roderick T. Long.  "Beyond the Boss:  Protection From Big Business in a Free Nation"  Formulations August 1996  http://www.libertariannation.org/a/f41l2.html

Long.  "Dismantling Leviathan From Within"  (in three parts) Forumulations Summer 1995-Winter 1995/96. http://libertariannation.org/a/f24l3.html#top

Long.  "A Plea for Public Property"  Formulations Spring 1998  http://libertariannation.org/a/f53l1.html

Dr. Race Matthews.  "Turning the Tide:  Towards a Mutualist Philosophy and Politics for Labor and the Left"  Australian Fabian Society Pamphlet No. 56 (2001).
http://www.australia.coop/race_mathews.htm

Lee McCracken.  "Hijacking Privatization" Strike the Root November 18, 2002  http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/mccracken/mccracken3.html

McCracken. "Two Cheers for Ralph Nader" March 3, 2004  http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/mccracken/mccracken1.html

Gary North.  Don't Invest in Copyright-Protected Companies" Nov. 5, 2003  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north224.html

Joe Peacott.  "Anarchism:  Communist or Individualist?  Both"  BAD Broadside # 12  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badbsd12.htm

Peacott.  "Anarchism Without Hyphens"  Bad Press Broadside #2 (Nov. 1999)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badpbsd2.htm

Peacott.  "Chomsky's Statism:  An Anarchism for the Next Millennium?"  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/chomsky%27s%20statism

Peacott.  "Privatization?  It Doesn't Go Far Enough"  BAD Broadside #17 (Oct. 1997)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badbsd17.htm

Peacott.  "Where Are the Anarchists?"  Bad Press Broadside #4 (May 2000)  http://world.std.com/~bbrigade/badpbsd4.htm

Keith Preston.  "A Calm Anarchist Look at Race, Culture, And Immigration"  The Idyllic Aug. 21, 2003  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=37

Preston.  "Am I a Fascist?  An Open Letter to the Left-Wing Anarchist Movement"  http://www.attackthesystem.com/fascist.html

Preston.  "America After the Revolution"  http://www.attackthesystem.com/after.html

Preston. "Anarchism or Anarcho-Social /Democracy?" http://www.attackthesystem.com/anarchism2.html

Preston."Conservatism is Not Enough: Reclaiming the Legacy of the Anti-State Left" http://www.attackthesystem.com/conservatism.html

Preston. "Left and Right: Prospects for a Revolutionary Alliance" http://www.attackthesystem.com/leftandright.html

Preston.  "National Anarchy and the American Ideal"  The Idyllic  Part I (July 30, 2003)  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=15  Part II (Aug. 1, 2003)  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=24  Part III (Aug. 9, 2003)  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=33

Preston. "Reply to Brian Oliver Sheppard's 'Anarchism Vs. Right-Wing Anti-Statism'" http://www.attackthesystem.com/reply.html 

Preston.  "Philosophical Anarchsim and the Death of Empire" http://www.attackthesystem.com/philo.html

Justin Raimondo.  "Old Right Nader."  The American Conservative  November 8, 2004  http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover2.html

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.  "Why the State is Different"  December 30, 2002  http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1408

Douglas Rushkoff.  "Open Source Currency"  The Feature October 13, 2004  http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101119&ref=4188917

Craig Russell.  "Voting Booths Open Today"  October 23, 2004  http://solutions.synearth.net/2004/10/23

Mary J. Ruwart.  Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression.  Third edition (Sunstar Press, 2003). 

Chris Matthew Sciabarra. Total Freedom:  Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (University Park, Penn.:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).

Arthur Silber.  "In Praise of Contextual Libertarianism"  The Light of Reason, November 2, 2003 http://coldfury.com/reason/index.php?p=151

Jonathan Simcock. "Editorial for Current Edition," http://www.spunk.org/library/pubs/tl/sp001872.html

Ed Stamm. "Anarchists Condemn Anti-WTO Riots" The Match! Spring 2000.

Peter Staudenmaier. "Anarchism and the Cooperative Ideal," The Communitarian Anarchist vol. 1 no. 1.

Matt Taibbi.  "Che Go Home:  We Don't Need a Revolution.  We Need a Clue"  New York Press 17:37 http://nypress.com/17/37/news&columns/taibbi.cfm

Jesse Walker.  "Elaboration"  http://jessewalker.blogspot.com/2004_03_07_jessewalker_archive.html#107880878385524987

Colin Ward.  "Schools No Longer,"  Chapter IX of Anarchy in Action (1973)  http://www.hwcn.org/~ap951/reading.html

Ward. "Temporary Autonomous Zones" Freedom Spring 1997 http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/ra_forum/en/people/ward_colin/taz.html

You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship: The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism (Tucson, Ariz.: See Sharp Press, 1998). http://www.zabalaza.net/pdfs/varpams/youcantblowup.pdf

 

Issues of Economic Centralism, Efficiency and Economy of Scale

Walter Adams and James W. Brock. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor and Government in the American Economy (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986).

Barry Stein. Size, Efficiency and Community Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Community Economic Development, 1974).

Primitive Accumulation, Statist Origins of Capitalism

Werner Bonefield.  "The Permanence of Primitive Accumulation:  Notes on Social Constitution" 
http://rcci.net/globalizacion/2001/fg176.htm

Maurice Dobb. Studies in the Development of Capitalism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd, 1963).

Jim Goad.  The Redneck Manifesto:  How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats (New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1997).  Especially Chapters 2 and 3.

J.L. and Barbara Hammond. The Town Labourer (1760-1832) 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1917)

Hammonds. The Village Labourer (1760-1832) (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1913).  http://www.chemengsoftware.com/huckin/villagelabourer.htm

Nancy Holmstrom and Richard Smith. "The Necessity of Gangster Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation in Russia and China" Monthly Review February 2000 
http://www.monthlyreview.org/200holm.htm

Steven A. Marglin. "What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production--Part I" Review of Radical Political Economics 6:2 (Summer 1974).

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  Part VIII, "The So-Called Primitive Accumulation," Capital vol. 1, Collected Works v. 35 (New York: International Publishers, 1996). http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm

Gilbert E. Metcalf.  "Fooled By the Shell Game"  Boston Globe, March 1, 2004.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/01/fooled_by_the_shell_game/

Michael Perelman.  "The Secret History of Primitive Accumulation and Classical Political Economy" from The Invention of Capitalism (Durham and London:  Duke University Press, 2001), reprinted in The Commoner, September 2001.
http://www.commoner.org.uk/02perelman.pdf

Standard Schaefer.  "An Interview with Michael Hudson on How Privatization Sterilizes Culture"  February 14/15, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/schaefer02142004.html

Schaefer.  "Russia: Reforming the Reformers" (an interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia)  February 27, 2004  http://www.counterpunch.org/schaefer02272004.html

E. P. Thompson. The Making of the English Working Class (New York: Vintage, 1963, 1966).

Modern State Capitalism

John Adams.  "Senator Hatch Introduced Bill to Burn People's Eyes Out" June 18, 2003 http://www.jzip.org/jzip/archives/000573.html

Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy. Monopoly Capitalism: An Essay in the American Economic and Social Order. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966)

Hilaire Belloc. The Servile State (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1913, 1977).

David Callahan.  "The Myth of the Populist Stock Market"  Christian Science Monitor January 8, 2004   http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p09s01-coop.htm

Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrere.  "The End of Cheap Oil:"  Scientific American March 1998  http://dieoff.com/page140.pdf

Roy Childs.  "Big Business and the Rise of American Statism"  Reason March 1971  http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm

Noam Chomsky.  "Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order:  Doctrines and Reality" Z Magazine November 1997
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199711--.htm

Alexander Cockburn.  "Understanding the World with Paul Sweezy"  March 6/7, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03062004.html

G. William Domhoff. The Higher Circles.  (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).

Domhoff. The Power Elite and the State (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990).

William M. Dugger. Corporate Hegemony (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).

Yves Engler.  "A Canadian Look at U.S. Healthcare"
http://www.lefthook.org/Politics/Engler032704.html

"Federal Toll Roads?"  April 06, 2004
http://www.drizzten.com/blargchives/000785.html#000785

Sam Francis.  "Corporations Have No Souls" August 12, 2004  http://www.vdare.com/francis/corporations.htm

Robert Freeman. "Will the End of Oil Mean the End of America?" March 1, 2004  http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0301-12.htm

Sean Gabb.  "Dr Pirie Changes Trains (But Continues in the Same Direction)"  Free Life Commentary 18 (July 3, 1998)   http://freespace.virgin.net/old.whig/flc018.htm

John Kenneth Galbraith. The New Industrial State (New York: Signet, 1967).

Mark J. Green et al. The Closed Enterprise System. Nader Study Group Report on Antitrust Enforcement (New York: Grossman, 1972).

Daniel Gross.  "Socialism, American Style:  Why American CEOs covet a massive European-style social-welfare state"  Slate Aug. 1, 2003  http://slate.msn.com/id/2086511/

Jurgen Habermas. Legitimation Crisis. Trans. by Thomas McCarthy (Great Britain: Polity Press, 1976, 1988).

Nicholas Heidorn.  "The Enduring Political Illusion of Farm Subsidies"  The Independent August 18, 2004  http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1340

Edward S. Herman. Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Rudolf Hilferding. Finance Capital. Edited and translated by Tom Bottomore (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1910 (1981)).

David Horowitz, ed. Corporations and the Cold War. (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1969).

Matthew Josephson.  The Robber Barons:  The Great American Capitalists 1861-1901 (New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1914) http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/josephson/josephson_index.html

N. Stephan Kinsella.  "Against Intellectual Property" Journal of Libertarian Studies  15:2 (Spring 2001), pp. 1-53.
http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf

Frank Kofsky. Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993).

Gabriel Kolko. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History 1900-1916 (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963).

William Lazonick. Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Lazonick. Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1990).

Tibor Machan. "On Airports and Individual Rights," The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. February 1999.

Paul Mattick.  "Economics of the War Economy"  American Socialist April 1959
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/AmerSoc_5904-a.htm

Seymour Melman.  "From Private to State Capitalism:  How the Permanent War Economy Transformed the Institutions of American Capitalism."  Briefing Paper #18 (February 1997) National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament   http://www.webcom.com/ncecd/bp18.html

Melman.  The Permanent War Economy (Simon and Schuster, 1974).

Melman.  Profits Without Production. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983).

C. Wright Mills. The Power Elite (Oxford University Press, 1956, 2000).

Mills. "The Structure of Power in American Society," in Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (New York: Balantine, 1963).

David Montgomery. The Fall of the House of Labor (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

Montgomery. Workers Control in America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

"The New Enclosures" Midnight Notes #10 (1990).  Reprinted in The Commoner September 2001.
http://www.commoner.org.uk/02midnight.pdf

David F. Noble. America By Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977).

Noble. Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984).

James O'Connor.  The Fiscal Crisis of the State (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973).

James Ostrowski.  "Same As It Ever Was:  Libertarians Battle the Corporate State"  LewRockwell.Com  December 31, 2003  http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski51.html

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (New York: Vintage Books, 1971, 1993).

Francois-Rene Rideau.  "Government and Microsoft:  a Libertarian View on Monopolies"  http://fare.tunes.org/liberty/microsoft_monopoly.html

Rideau.  "Patents Are An Economic Absurdity"  http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.html

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.  "Government Contractors Versus Real Business"  October 6, 2004  http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1643

Jack Ross.  "There is But One System"  The Idyllic Aug. 21, 2003  http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=39

Murray Rothbard. "The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device" in Barry N. Siegel, ed., Money in Crisis: The Federal Reserve, the Economy, and Monetary Reform. Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1984).

Murray Rothbard.  "Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy" (1984) Reproduced at LewRockwell.Com (2005), with Afterword by Justin Raimondo  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html

Murray Rothbard and Ronald Radosh, eds. A New History of Leviathan: Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State. (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972).

Joseph Schumpeter. "Imperialism." Imperialism, Social Classes: Two Essays by Joseph Schumpeter. Translated by Heinz Norden. Introduction by Hert Hoselitz. (New York: Meridian Books, 1955).

Theodore Seto.  "[Differential] Tax Cuts Boost Joblessness, Encourage Outsourcing" Atlanta Journal-Constitution  March 29, 2004  http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0304/29equal.html

Martin J. Sklar. "Woodrow Wilson and the Political Economy of Modern United States Liberalism."  In Rothbard and Radosh, eds., pp. 7-65.

Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations. Great Books edition (Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc., 1952). [a great source on the hypocrisy of today's neoliberals]

Katherine Stone. "The Orignin of Job Structures in the Steel Industry," in Root & Branch, ed., The Rise of the Workers' Movements (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, Inc., ) pp. 123-157.

Joseph R. Stromberg. The Political Economy of Liberal Corporatism. (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1977).  http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/strombrg.html

Stromberg. "The Role of State Monopoly Capitalism in the American Empire" Journal of Libertarian Studies Volume 15, no. 3 (Summer 2001), pp. 57-93. http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_3/15_3_3.pdf

Tim Swanson "Texas-Sized Tomfoolery" Mises.Org (September 9, 2003) http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1320 (how power deregulation really works).

Silja J.A. Talvi.  "Cashing in on Cons:  Undercover at the American Correctional Association’s 2005 Winter Conference" In These Times February 4, 2005 http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1924/

James Weinstein. The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968)

Sam Wells.  "Power Elites in America:  Oligopoly and Political Pull"
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/monopoly.htm

William Appleman Williams. The Contours of American History (1961).

 

New Class Elitism/Social Engineering

Barton J. Bledstein.  The Culture of Professionalism.

Bert Cochran.  "Socialism, Power Elites and Bureaucracy"
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/cochran03.htm

Herbert Croly. The Promise of American Life (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1909,1989). [Since this book is the manifesto of corporate liberalism, it could just as easily have gone in the state capitalism section]

Cathy Cuthbert.  "The Missing S Affair"  January 26, 2000  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/cuthbert5.html

Cuthbert.  "The Rise of the American Empire"  April 18, 2000  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/cuthbert1.html

Michelle Bates Deakin.  "Schoolhouse Rocked" Boston Globe March 21, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/03/21/schoolhouse_rocked/

Frank Fischer.  Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc., 1990).

John Taylor Gatto.  "Against School"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm

Gatto.  "Confederacy of Dunces:  The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling"  Speech delivered at UT Austin  http://www.spinninglobe.net/condunces.htm

Gatto.  "Institutional Schooling Must Be Destroyed"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/institsch.htm

Gatto.  "A Map, a Mirror and a Wristwatch"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/map.htm

Gatto.  "Mudsill Theory, the Lancaster Amish, and Jaime Escalante"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/mudsill.htm

Gatto.  "Nine Assumptions of Schooling--and Twenty-one Facts the Institution Would Rather Not Discuss"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/9assumptions.htm

Gatto.  "The Psychopathic School"  (from Dumbing Us Down) http://www.spinninglobe.net/psychosch.htm

Gatto.  "The Public School Nightmare:  why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?"  http://www.dvschool.org/psngatto.htm

Gatto.  "Radical Democracy and Our Future"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/rademoc.htm

Gatto.  "A Short Angry History of American Forced Schooling"  Speech for Vermont Homeschooling Conference.  http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

Gatto.  "Some Lessons From the Underground History of American Education"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/lessons.htm

Gatto.  "Some Thoughts on the National Socialization of Children"  http://www.spinninglobe.net/natsockids.htm

Gatto.  The Underground History of American Education.  http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

Gatto.  "We Need Less School, Not More"  (from Dumbing Us Down) http://www.spinninglobe.net/lesschool.htm

Gatto.  "What Really Matters"

Part 1.  Natural Life Magazine #40  http://www.life.ca/nl/40/gatto.html

Part 2.  Natural Life Magazine #41  http://www.life.ca/nl/41/gatto.html

Gatto.  "Why Schools Don't Educate"  Speech Jan. 31, 1990, on acceptance of NY Teacher of the Year award.  http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html

Gatto.  "The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher"  (New Society Publishers, 1992)  http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt

Jim Henley.  "When All the Time, There's This Great Plank in Your Own" (on New Class)
http://www.highclearing.com/archivesuo/week_2004_02_22.html#005088

"John Holt:  Plowboy Interview"  Mother Earth News July/August 1980  http://www.bloomington.in.us/~learn/Holt.htm

Roland Huntford. The New Totalitarians (New York: Stein and Day, 1971). [the wonderful Swedish system that NPR liberals love so much; they actually DID all the things Sidney and Beatrice dreamed of]

Christopher Lasch. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: Norton, 1978, 1979).

Lasch. The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995).

Jesse Walker review ("The Expropriation of Everyday Life")  http://www.libertysoft.com/liberty/reviews/53walker.html

Lasch. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics (New York: Norton, 1991).

Walter Lippmann. Public Opinion (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922).

John P. McCarthy. Hilaire Belloc, Edwardian Radical (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1970). [See chapter on his disputes with the Fabians]

Tim O'Shea.  "The Doors of Perception:  Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything"  August 15, 2001  http://www.mercola.com/2001/aug/15/perception.htm

Virginia Postrel.  "The Croly Ghost: Exorcising the specter haunting American politics"  Reason  December 1997  http://reason.com/9712/ed.vp.shtml

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Trust Us, We're Experts! (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001).

Fred Reed.  "Driving Down Unknown Roads"  April 2, 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed30.html

Sheldon Richman.  "Why the State took Control of 'Education':  Government Schools Are Not There to Serve Children"  http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v1n4/lead.html

Llewellyn H. Rockwell.  "The New Intellectuals"  February 12, 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/new-intellectuals.html

Alan Singer.  "An Encounter with Senator Charles Schumer"  Counterpunch December 22, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/singer12222004.html

Joel Spring. Education and the Rise of the Corporate State (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972). [Rich source on corporate liberalism as an ideology, and on the managerial culture of "professionalism" and "expertise" that has befouled so many aspects of life]

Jesse Walker.  "Mr. Showbiz Goes to Washington"  Reason  April 1, 2004
http://www.reason.com/links/links040104.shtml

Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The Prevention of Destitution (London, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911). [Here they are! The predecessors of Hillary, Rosie, and Barbra, and all those other folks who know what's best for you]

Matt Welch.