Social Class and State Power

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).<p></p> <p> </p>