The Nature of Government and Politics

The state is "that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion." – Murray Rothbard

“A state is defined conventionally as an agency that exercises a compulsory territorial monopoly of ultimate decison-making (jurisdiction) and of taxation. By definition then, every state, regardless of its particular constitution, is economically and ethically deficient.” – Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Suggested Resources

• Anatomy of the State  by Murray N. Rothbard
• Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty   by Murray N. Rothbard
• Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later   by Roderick T. Long
• No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority  by Lysander Spooner
• What Big Government is All About by David Boaz
  
• State Socialism and Anarchism: HOW FAR THEY AGREE, AND WHEREIN THEY DIFFER (1888)  by Benjamin R. Tucker
• Your Vote Doesn't Count  by Katherine Mangu-Ward
• Seven Principles of Public Policy by Lawrence W. Reed
• What Big Government Is All About  by David Boaz 
• Non-Voting Archive  by LewRockwell.com 
• How to Win an Election  by Mark Brandly 
• The Republican Charade: Lincoln and His Party  by Clyde Wilson 
• The Conflation Trap  by Roderick T. Long 
• Ron Paul's Farewell Speech to Congress  by Ron Paul

Political Economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government. It examines the relationship between politics and economics in modern societies.

• Not Yours To Give   by David Crockett
• A Petition from the Candlemakers  by Frederic Bastiat
• What Is Seen and What Is Unseen  by Frederic Bastiat
• Government Growth  by Robert Higgs
• The Criminality of the State  by Albert Jay Nock
• The Individual in Society   by Ludwig von Mises
• The Institution of Property (.pdf)  by David Schmidtz
• The Use of Knowledge in Society  by F.A. Hayek
• U.S. Agricultural Programs: Who Pays?  by E.C. Pasour Jr
• Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom  by Richard Ebeling

The Tale of the Slave  by Robert Nozick, video by Stateless Liberty:

 

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