Library of Liberty

The State

• The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard - The libertarian critique of the state.
• Demystifying the State by Wendy McElroy - Shattering the aura of legitimacy.
• The State by Jan Narveson - Political philosopher analyzes the State. New!
• Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de la Boétie - Why do people obey authority?
• A Vindication of Natural Society by Edmund Burke - First anarchist essay. Anarchy is better than State.
• Objectivism and the State: An Open Letter to Ayn Rand by Roy Childs - Anarchism vs. minarchism.

War and Peace

• Just War by Murray N. Rothbard
• Time For Liberty by James Ostrowski
• War is the Health of the State by Randolph Bourne
• War, Peace, and the State - Murray N. Rothbard
• They Didn't Attack Switzerland - Bill Walker
• Patriotism - Herbert Spencer
• Lew Rockwell Peace Archive - various authors
• Also see Antiwar.com and Noninterventionist.com

Justice and Natural Law

• The Law by Frederic Bastiat - The quintessential statement of Natural Law.
• The Right to Ignore the State by Herbert Spencer - The right to opt out of a government.
• Natural Law by Lysander Spooner - Classic essay on justice and natural law.

Free Market Security

• Anarchy and Efficient Law by David Friedman - Economic analysis of free-market protection agencies.
• The Production of Security by Gustave de Molinari - First ever anarcho-capitalist essay, 1849.
• Panarchy by P.E. de Puydt (1860)

Taxation

• Taxation is Robbery by Frank Chodorov - The essence of taxation.
• The Myth of Neutral Taxation by Murray N. Rothbard - State Robbery and the Market; Austrian analysis
• Time for Another Revolution by Frank Chodorov - The income tax betrayed the American Revolution

Against Political Activism

• The Ethics of Voting by George H. Smith - Should a libertarian vote?
• Why I Would Not Vote Against Hitler by Wendy McElroy
• Letter to the Liberals by Leo Tolstoy
• Voluntaryist Bibliography and History by Carl Watner
  Bibliography, Libertarian Tradition, and European Anarchist Tradition

Other

• In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff - Philosophical anarchism. Moral autonomy vs. authority.
• Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
• Assassination Politics by Jim Bell
• What is Property? by Pierre Proudhon - Classic anarchist tract. "Property is theft."
• Political Philosophy for Daniel C. Burton by Daniel Burton - Another anarcho-capitalist manifesto.
• Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard by Daniel B. Klein - 'Open tent' definition of libertarianism. Two styles of arguing.
• Response To The Anarchist FAQ by Richard A. Garner - The definition of anarchism, and some history.
• Government is a Quack Faith-Healer by Wolf DeVoon
• Deep Anarchy by Max T. O'Connor

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