Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition

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)

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 Aristoc

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)

14 Charles Renouard, "Robbers as Parasites" (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 Societ

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)

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:

29 Roderick T. Long, "Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class" (1998)