Social Class and State Power

Part I. Classic Works of Classical Liberal Class Analysis

1. Richard Overton, “Monopolists as Frogs and Vermin” (1641)
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2. Adam Smith, “On Conspiracies, Monopolies, and Unproductive Labour” (1776)
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3. Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1792)
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4. Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (June 1792)
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5. William Godwin, “Of Courts, Subjects, and Pensions” (1793)
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6. Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism (1795)
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7. Jeremy Bentham, “Causes of All Mischiefs,” Plan of Parliamentary Reform (1817)
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8. Jeremy Bentham, “How the Demand for Political Fallacies Is Created by the State of Interests,” The Book of Fallacies (1824)
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9. Thomas Hodgskin, “On Obedience as the Object of Legislation” (1832)
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10. William Leggett, “The Lordlings of the Paper Dynasty” (1834)
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11. James Mill, “On Those Who Pillage and Those Who Are Pillaged” (1835)
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12. John Wade, “The Aristocracy and the Oligarchy” (1835)
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13. Adolphe Blanqui, “The Class Which Does Not Kill or Pillage” (1837)
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14. Richard Cobden, “England Is a Perfect Paradise for the Aristocracy” (1845–49)
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15. Frédéric Bastiat, “The English Oligarchy” (1845)
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16. Frédéric Bastiat, “The Physiology of Plunder” (1847)
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17. John C. Calhoun, “Tax Payers versus Tax Receivers” (1849)
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18. Charles Renouard, “Robbers as Parasites” (1852)
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19. Gustave de Molinari, “The Nobility as Conquering Plunderers” (1852)
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20. Augustin Thierry, “The Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie” (1853)
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21. Herbert Spencer, “The Class-Bias” (1873)
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22. Herbert Spencer, “The Militant Type of Society” (1882)
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23. Lysander Spooner, No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority (1870)
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24. Lysander Spooner, Natural Law Contrasted with Legislation (1882)
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25. William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man” (1883)
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26. William Graham Sumner, “Democracy and Plutocracy” (Undated)
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27. Benjamin R. Tucker, “The Four Monopolies: Money, Land, Tariffs, and Patents” (1888)
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28. Franz Oppenheimer, “The Economic Versus the Political Means of Acquiring Wealth” (1908)
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29. Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy, the State (1935)
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30. Ludwig von Mises, “On Castes, Classes, and Group Interests” (1945)
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Part II. Contemporary Interpretations of Classical Liberal Class Analysis

31. Murray N. Rothbard, “The Anatomy of the State” (1965)
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32. Roy A. Childs, “Big Business and the Rise of American Statism” (1969, 1971)
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33. Walter E. Grinder and John Hagel, “Toward a Theory of State Capitalism: Ultimate Decision-Making and Class Structure” (1974)
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34.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis” (1990)
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35. Roderick T. Long, “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class” (1998)
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory, Social Theory