Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition 1st Edition David M. Hart 3319648934 9783319648941

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Author: Edition David M. Hart

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis—often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position. Social Class and State Power documents the rich tradition of liberal class theory, its rediscovery in the twentieth century, and the possibilities it opens up for research in the new millenium.

Classic Works of Classical Liberal Class Analysis

Richard Overton, “Monopolists as Frogs and Vermin” (1641)

Adam Smith, “On Conspiracies, Monopolies, and Unproductive Labour” (1776)

Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1792)

Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (June 1792)

William Godwin, “Of Courts, Subjects, and Pensions” (1793)

Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism (1795)

Jeremy Bentham, “Causes of All Mischiefs,” Plan of Parliamentary Reform (1817)

Jeremy Bentham, “How the Demand for Political Fallacies Is Created by the State of Interests,” The Book of Fallacies (1824)

Thomas Hodgskin, “On Obedience as the Object of Legislation” (1832)

William Leggett, “The Lordlings of the Paper Dynasty” (1834)

James Mill, “On Those Who Pillage and Those Who Are Pillaged” (1835)

John Wade, “The Aristocracy and the Oligarchy” (1835)

Adolphe Blanqui, “The Class Which Does Not Kill or Pillage” (1837)

Richard Cobden, “England Is a Perfect Paradise for the Aristocracy” (1845–49)

Frédéric Bastiat, “The English Oligarchy” (1845)

Frédéric Bastiat, “The Physiology of Plunder” (1847)

John C. Calhoun, “Tax Payers versus Tax Receivers” (1849)

Charles Renouard, “Robbers as Parasites” (1852)

Gustave de Molinari, “The Nobility as Conquering Plunderers” (1852)

Augustin Thierry, “The Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie” (1853)

Herbert Spencer, “The Class-Bias” (1873)

Herbert Spencer, “The Militant Type of Society” (1882)

Lysander Spooner, No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority (1870)

Lysander Spooner, Natural Law Contrasted with Legislation (1882)

William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man” (1883)

William Graham Sumner, “Democracy and Plutocracy” (Undated)

Benjamin R. Tucker, “The Four Monopolies: Money, Land, Tariffs, and Patents” (1888)

Franz Oppenheimer, “The Economic Versus the Political Means of Acquiring Wealth” (1908)

Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy, the State (1935)

Ludwig von Mises, “On Castes, Classes, and Group Interests” (1945)

Contemporary Interpretations of Classical Liberal Class Analysis

Murray N. Rothbard, “The Anatomy of the State” (1965)

Roy A. Childs, “Big Business and the Rise of American Statism” (1969, 1971)

Walter E. Grinder and John Hagel, “Toward a Theory of State Capitalism: Ultimate Decision-Making and Class Structure” (1974)

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis” (1990)

Roderick T. Long, “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class” (1998)