Social Class and State Power

• Excavates a tradition of class analysis that influenced Marx but differs significantly.

• Emphasizes the role of politics in constituting class position.

• Links class analysis with a critique of state power.

Auteur
David M. Hart, Director, Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, USA

Gary Chartier , Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics, La Sierra University, USA Ross Miller Kenyon , independent scholar and video producer, Los Angeles, USA Roderick T. Long , Professor of Philosophy, Auburn University, USA

Contenu
Classic Works of Classical Liberal Class Analysis.- 1 Richard Overton, Monopolists as Frogs and Vermin (1641).- 2 Adam Smith, On Conspiracies, Monopolies, and Unproductive Labour (1776).- 3 Thomas Paine, On Governments, Placemen, and Pensioners (1792).- 4 William Godwin, Of Courts, Subjects, and Pensions (1793).- 5 Jeremy Bentham, On Mischiefs and the Sinister Interests (1817, 1824).- 6 Thomas Hodgskin, On Obedience as the Object of Legislation (1832).- 7 William Leggett , The Lordlings of the Paper Dynasty (1834).- 8 James Mill, On Those Who Pillage and Those Who Are Pillaged (1835).- 9 John Wade, The Aristocracy and the Oligarchy (1835).- 10 Adolphe Blanqui, The Class Which Does Not Kill or Pillage (1837).- 11 Richard Cobden, England is a perfect Paradise for the Aristocracy (1845-49).- 12 Frédéric Bastiat, On the English Oligarchy and Legal Plunder (1845, 1847) .- 13 John C. Calhoun, Tax Payers versus Tax Receivers (1849).- 14 Charles Renouard, Robbers asParasites (1852).- 15 Gustave de Molinari, The Nobility as Conquering Plunderers (1852).- 16 Augustin Thierry, The Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie (1853).- 17 Herbert Spencer, On Class Bias and the Militant Type of Society (1873, 1882).- 18 Lysander Spooner, On Government as a Band of Robbers and Murderers (1870, 1882).- 19 William Graham Sumner, On Forgotten Men and Plutocrats (1883).- 20 Benjamin R. Tucker, The Four Monopolies: Money, Land, Tariffs, and Patents (1888).- 21 Vifredo Pareto, The Decline and Rise of Elites (1900).- 22 Franz Oppenheimer, The Economic versus the Political Means of Acquiring Wealth (1908).- 23 Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy, the State (1935).- 24 Ludwig von Mises, On Castes, Classes, and Group Interests (1945).- Contemporary Interpretations of Classical Liberal Class Analysis.- 25 Murray N. Rothbard, The Anatomy of the State (1965).- 26 Roy A. Childs, Big Business and the Rise of American Statism (1969, 1971).- 27 Walter E. Grinder and John Hagel, Toward a Theory of State Capitalism: Ultimate Decision-Making and Class Structure (1974).- 28 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis (1990).- 29 Roderick T. Long, Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class (1998).