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Curated references articles.

Last updated: 2026-05-16

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A Theory of Socialism and CapitalismReference guide to Hoppe’s comparative-systems book on capitalism, socialism, and property regimes, now ingested in full text.hoppe, austrian-economics, socialism, property-rights2026-04-25
Albert Jay NockShort author reference for Albert Jay Nock, the American essayist and Old Right forerunner whose Our Enemy, the State transmitted Oppenheimer’s state theory into American libertarian anti-statism.albert-jay-nock, old-right, state, social-power, political-means, american-history2026-05-10
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynShort author reference for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident writer and author of The Gulag Archipelago. He enters this wiki as a witness to Soviet totalitarianism, not as a libertarian political theorist.aleksandr-solzhenitsyn, gulag, soviet-union, stalinism, dissident-literature, totalitarianism2026-05-12
America’s Great DepressionReference guide to Rothbard’s 1963 application of Austrian Business Cycle Theory to the 1929 crash and the prolonged depression that followed; the canonical Austrian interpretation of the era and a sustained revisionist case against Hoover as the architect of the New Deal interventionist program.rothbard, great-depression, austrian-economics, business-cycle, economic-history, hoover, monetary-history2026-05-06
Anatomy of the StateReference guide to Rothbard’s concise anti-state essay on political monopoly, ideological camouflage, and the conflict between state power and social power.rothbard, state, anti-statism, political-theory, political-means, evolution-of-the-state2026-05-12
Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian AlternativeReference guide to Zack Rofer’s accessible libertarian primer on common pro-state myths and common misconceptions about the free market.state, libertarianism, strategy, advocacy2026-04-25
Carl SchmittAuthor reference for Carl Schmitt, included as a non-libertarian and anti-liberal theorist of sovereignty, exception, decision, and the friend/enemy distinction.carl-schmitt, sovereignty, state-of-exception, friend-enemy-distinction, political-theology, decisionism, non-libertarian2026-05-12
Charles TillyShort author reference for Charles Tilly, the American historical sociologist whose 1985 organized-crime essay and later Coercion, Capital, and European States supply this wiki’s non-libertarian Tilly tradition node.charles-tilly, historical-sociology, state, war-and-state-formation, comparative-historical-sociology2026-05-12
Coercion, Capital, and European StatesReference guide to Charles Tilly’s historical-sociological account of European state formation, war-making, extraction, citizenship, nationalism, soldiers, and the capital/coercion typology. The raw aggregate now includes chapters 1-7.charles-tilly, state, historical-sociology, war-and-state-formation, coercion, capital, protection-racket, european-history, citizenship, nationalism, military-power, full-text2026-05-12
Democracy: The God That FailedReference guide to Hoppe’s 2001 regime-comparison book on monarchy, democracy, time preference, decivilization, and natural order, now backed by a full-text Internet Archive OCR ingest.hoppe, democracy, monarchy, time-preference, decivilization, natural-order, regime-theory, praxeology2026-05-12
Discipline and PunishReference guide to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, especially disciplinary power, surveillance, examination, docile bodies, panopticism, and the prison form.michel-foucault, discipline-and-punish, disciplinary-power, panopticism, prison, surveillance, normalization, non-libertarian, commercially-published2026-05-12
Eichmann in JerusalemReference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on Adolf Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial and the banality-of-evil thesis. Companion to The Origins of Totalitarianism: the earlier book analyzes the regime, while Eichmann analyzes the ordinary participant.hannah-arendt, eichmann, banality-of-evil, holocaust, totalitarianism, bureaucracy, moral-judgment, thoughtlessness2026-05-12
F. A. HayekReference guide to Friedrich Hayek’s place in this wiki as the second pillar of mature Austrian economics: knowledge-problem theorist, business-cycle theorist, and classical-liberal critic of central planning.hayek, austrian-economics, classical-liberalism, knowledge-problem, business-cycle2026-05-05
For a New LibertyReference guide to Rothbard’s movement-level overview of libertarian doctrine, applications, and strategy, now ingested in full text.rothbard, libertarianism, anti-statism, strategy2026-05-05
Franz OppenheimerShort author reference for Franz Oppenheimer, the German sociologist and political economist whose conquest theory of the state and political/economic means distinction fed into Nock, Rothbard, and later libertarian anti-state theory.franz-oppenheimer, sociology, state, conquest-theory, political-means, economic-means2026-05-10
Hannah ArendtAuthor reference for Hannah Arendt, whose works now present in the wiki include Origins, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Violence, The Human Condition, and On Revolution.hannah-arendt, political-philosophy, totalitarianism, banality-of-evil, on-violence, the-human-condition, on-revolution, violence, power, republicanism, civic-humanism, continental-philosophy2026-05-12
Hans-Hermann HoppeReference guide to Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s role in this wiki as a property theorist, Austrian economist, and major bridge from market theory to private-law anarchism.hoppe, austrian-economics, libertarianism, property-rights, democracy, regime-theory2026-05-10
Human ActionReference guide to Mises’s praxeological treatise (1949 / Scholar’s Edition 1998), the foundational text of modern Austrian economics and the immediate intellectual ancestor of Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State.mises, austrian-economics, praxeology, economics2026-05-05
Individualism and Economic OrderReference guide to Hayek’s 1948 essay collection containing ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’, ‘Economics and Knowledge’, the three ‘Socialist Calculation’ essays, and ‘The Meaning of Competition’ — the most concentrated statement of his knowledge-problem critique of central planning.hayek, knowledge-problem, spontaneous-order, socialist-calculation-debate, competition2026-05-05
Jason LoweryShort author reference for Jason P. Lowery as represented by Softwar: a US Space Force officer and MIT SDM fellow whose thesis analyzes Bitcoin as electro-cyber power projection and national-security infrastructure.jason-lowery, softwar, bitcoin, national-security, ussf, mit-sdm2026-05-10
Let’s Abolish GovernmentReference guide to the Rothbard-curated Spooner collection on constitutional illegitimacy, jury nullification, slavery, and radical anti-state dissent.spooner, government, constitutionalism, anti-statism2026-04-25
LiberalismReference guide to Mises’s short 1927 statement of classical-liberal political economy: private property, peace, free trade, and a strictly limited state defended on consequentialist economic grounds.mises, liberalism, classical-liberalism, free-trade2026-05-05
Ludwig von MisesReference guide to Ludwig von Mises’s place in this wiki as the founder of modern Austrian economics, originator of the economic-calculation argument, and the methodological source for the wider Rothbardian tradition.mises, austrian-economics, praxeology, classical-liberalism2026-05-10
Man, Economy, and StateReference guide to Rothbard’s full Man, Economy, and State aggregate: action, exchange, money, and the Power and Market intervention analysis.rothbard, austrian-economics, economics, power-and-market2026-04-22
Max HillebrandShort author reference for Max Hillebrand as represented in this wiki by The Praxeology of Privacy, a Towards Liberty public-domain book connecting Austrian economics, Rothbardian/Hoppean libertarianism, Bitcoin privacy, and cypherpunk implementation.max-hillebrand, privacy, bitcoin, cypherpunk, austrian-economics2026-05-10
Michel FoucaultAuthor reference for Michel Foucault, included as a non-libertarian genealogist of discipline, surveillance, biopower, population, and modern power.michel-foucault, disciplinary-power, biopower, genealogy, sovereignty, population, non-libertarian2026-05-12
Murray N. RothbardReference guide to Rothbard’s place in this wiki as system-builder, economist, anti-state theorist, and movement strategist.rothbard, libertarianism, austrian-economics, anti-statism, economic-history2026-05-06
On RevolutionReference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1963 comparison of the American and French revolutions, public freedom, the social question, founding, public happiness, and the lost council tradition.hannah-arendt, on-revolution, revolution, american-revolution, french-revolution, public-happiness, council-system, founding, commercially-published2026-05-12
On ViolenceReference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1970 essay distinguishing power, strength, force, authority, and violence, and arguing that violence is instrumental rather than identical with political power.hannah-arendt, on-violence, violence, power, authority, force, political-philosophy, totalitarianism, commercially-published2026-05-12
Our Enemy, the StateReference guide to Albert Jay Nock’s 1935 anti-state book applying Oppenheimer’s political-means/economic-means distinction to American history and the New Deal.albert-jay-nock, state, social-power, state-power, political-means, american-history, old-right2026-05-12
Political TheologyReference guide to Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology, the sovereign-decision work that defines sovereignty through decision on the exception.carl-schmitt, political-theology, sovereignty, state-of-exception, decisionism, non-libertarian, commercially-published2026-05-12
Power and MarketReference guide to Rothbard’s 1970 standalone companion to Man, Economy, and State — the autistic/binary/triangular intervention typology and the systematic Austrian critique of taxation, government expenditure, and antimarket ethics.rothbard, austrian-economics, intervention, taxation, power-and-market, political-means2026-05-16
Prices and Production and Other WorksReference guide to the Mises Institute’s collected edition of Hayek’s monetary and business-cycle works (originals 1929–1939) — the core texts of Austrian business-cycle theory.hayek, austrian-business-cycle-theory, capital-theory, monetary-theory2026-05-05
SocialismReference guide to Mises’s 1922 critique of socialism, the original statement of the economic-calculation argument, and the proximate ancestor of the entire socialist-calculation debate.mises, socialism, economic-calculation, austrian-economics2026-05-05
Society Must Be DefendedReference guide to Michel Foucault’s 1975-1976 lectures on war, sovereignty, disciplinary power, biopower, population, and state racism.michel-foucault, society-must-be-defended, biopower, sovereignty, population, state-racism, non-libertarian, commercially-published2026-05-12
SoftwarReference guide to Jason Lowery’s 2023 MIT SDM master’s thesis arguing that Bitcoin should be analyzed as electro-cyber power projection and national-security infrastructure, not only as peer-to-peer cash or monetary technology.jason-lowery, softwar, bitcoin, power-projection, national-security, proof-of-work, cyberspace2026-05-10
The Concept of the PoliticalReference guide to Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political, especially the friend/enemy criterion and critique of liberal depoliticization.carl-schmitt, concept-of-the-political, friend-enemy-distinction, sovereignty, political-theory, non-libertarian, commercially-published2026-05-12
The Economics and Ethics of Private PropertyReference guide to Hoppe’s collected essays on property, taxation, money, public goods, and security, now ingested in full text.hoppe, property-rights, austrian-economics, taxation2026-04-25
The Ethics of LibertyReference guide to Rothbard’s natural-rights treatise (1982/1998) on the ethical foundations of libertarianism: self-ownership, property, contract, the state, and a critique of competing libertarian theories.rothbard, natural-rights, ethics, liberty, property-rights2026-05-05
The Gulag ArchipelagoReference guide to Solzhenitsyn’s documentary-literary investigation of the Soviet camp system. The wiki now holds both the earlier abridged one-volume OCR and the unabridged three-volume OCR ingested on 2026-05-12.aleksandr-solzhenitsyn, gulag, soviet-union, stalinism, totalitarianism, mass-terror, labor-camps, ideology, dissident-literature, abridged, unabridged2026-05-12
The Human ConditionReference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1958 account of vita activa: labor, work, action, public and private realms, the rise of the social, and the modern eclipse of public action.hannah-arendt, the-human-condition, vita-activa, labor, work, action, public-realm, private-realm, rise-of-the-social, commercially-published2026-05-12
The LawReference guide to Bastiat’s anti-plunder essay on law, liberty, property, and the corruption of legislation.bastiat, law, property-rights, legal-plunder2026-05-12
The Market for LibertyReference guide to the Tannehills’ full-scale case for private law, arbitration, insurance, and defense markets, now ingested in full text.tannehill, market-anarchism, private-law, defense-agencies2026-04-25
The Origins of TotalitarianismReference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1951 study of antisemitism, imperialism, mass society, ideology, terror, and totalitarianism as a novel form of government. The wiki holds a full-text Internet Archive OCR ingest of the 1973 Harvest / Harcourt edition under commercial-copyright provenance.hannah-arendt, totalitarianism, antisemitism, imperialism, nazism, stalinism, mass-society, ideology, terror, political-philosophy, commercially-published2026-05-12
The Politics of ObedienceReference guide to La Boetie’s classic essay on consent, habit, and the fragility of political domination, now ingested in full text.de-la-boetie, consent, state, strategy, evolution-of-the-state2026-05-10
The Praxeology of PrivacyReference guide to Max Hillebrand’s public-domain v0.2.0 book arguing that privacy is a structural feature of human action and that Austrian theory and cypherpunk implementation converge in privacy-preserving money, communication, and parallel-economy tools.max-hillebrand, privacy, praxeology, austrian-economics, bitcoin, cypherpunk, cryptography, property-rights, power-projection2026-05-10
The Production of SecurityReference guide to Molinari’s 1849 essay — the founding text of the classical-liberal case for private, competitive production of security, and the principal nineteenth-century predecessor to modern market-anarchist thought.molinari, market-anarchism, private-security, classical-liberalism, private-law, evolution-of-the-state2026-05-10
The Road to SerfdomReference guide to Hayek’s 1944 warning that central economic planning leads to authoritarian rule by destroying the rule of law and the institutions on which liberty depends, now cross-linked to Arendt’s distinct totalitarianism framework.hayek, central-planning, totalitarianism, rule-of-law, classical-liberalism2026-05-10
The StateReference guide to Franz Oppenheimer’s sociological treatise on the state’s conquest origin, developmental stages, and political-means/economic-means distinction.franz-oppenheimer, state, conquest-theory, political-means, economic-means, sociology2026-05-12
The Theory of Money and CreditReference guide to Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit (1912 German; 1934 English trans. H. E. Batson; 1953 Yale ‘new edition’ enlarged with Monetary Reconstruction) — the founding text of Austrian monetary theory and the original source of the regression theorem, the present-good-for-future-good definition of credit, and the proto-statement of Austrian Business Cycle Theory.mises, austrian-economics, monetary-theory, money-and-banking, credit, regression-theorem, business-cycle, ludwig-von-mises2026-05-09
Theory and HistoryReference guide to Mises’s 1957 methodological treatise: the case for methodological dualism between the natural and social sciences, and a critique of historicism, scientism, and Marxian dialectical materialism.mises, methodology, epistemology, philosophy-of-history2026-05-05
Thus Spake Zarathustra: The New IdolReference guide to Nietzsche’s 1883 Zarathustra chapter that calls the state the coldest monster: useful as a non-libertarian primary source for the state-as-monster trope, but not a source for libertarian political theory.nietzsche, state, critique-of-the-state, anti-statism, primary-source2026-05-12
War Making and State Making as Organized CrimeReference guide to Charles Tilly’s 1985 essay that explicitly compares war making, state making, protection, and extraction to organized crime. This is the canonical source for the ‘quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy’ formulation.charles-tilly, state, war-and-state-formation, protection-racket, organized-crime, historical-sociology, coercion, extraction2026-05-12

Categories

  • reference: a-theory-of-socialism-and-capitalism.md, albert-jay-nock.md, aleksandr-solzhenitsyn.md, americas-great-depression.md, anatomy-of-the-state.md, busting-myths-about-the-state-and-the-libertarian-alternative.md, carl-schmitt.md, charles-tilly.md, coercion-capital-and-european-states.md, democracy-the-god-that-failed.md, discipline-and-punish.md, eichmann-in-jerusalem.md, friedrich-a-hayek.md, for-a-new-liberty.md, franz-oppenheimer.md, hannah-arendt.md, hans-hermann-hoppe.md, human-action.md, individualism-and-economic-order.md, jason-lowery.md, lets-abolish-government.md, liberalism.md, ludwig-von-mises.md, man-economy-and-state.md, max-hillebrand.md, michel-foucault.md, murray-n-rothbard.md, on-revolution.md, on-violence.md, our-enemy-the-state.md, political-theology.md, power-and-market.md, prices-and-production.md, socialism.md, society-must-be-defended.md, softwar.md, the-concept-of-the-political.md, the-economics-and-ethics-of-private-property.md, the-ethics-of-liberty.md, the-gulag-archipelago.md, the-human-condition.md, the-law.md, the-market-for-liberty.md, the-origins-of-totalitarianism.md, the-politics-of-obedience.md, the-praxeology-of-privacy.md, the-production-of-security.md, road-to-serfdom.md, oppenheimer-the-state.md, the-theory-of-money-and-credit.md, theory-and-history.md, thus-spake-zarathustra-the-new-idol.md, war-making-and-state-making-as-organized-crime.md

Recent Changes

  • 2026-05-16: Added dedicated power-and-market reference, splitting Rothbard’s 1970 Power and Market out of the combined MES + P&M aggregate; updated dual-link citations in rothbard-on-price-controls and the argentina-rent-decontrol-2023 thesis to point at the new reference.
  • 2026-05-12: Added Arendt, Schmitt, and Foucault work/author references; upgraded Solzhenitsyn and Tilly references to the new full-text coverage.
  • 2026-05-10: Added war-making-and-state-making-as-organized-crime, eichmann-in-jerusalem, the-gulag-archipelago, and aleksandr-solzhenitsyn; updated Arendt, Tilly, Origins, and Coercion/Capital references
  • 2026-05-10: Added the-origins-of-totalitarianism and hannah-arendt; cross-linked Arendt with Hayek, Nock, and state-critique articles
  • 2026-05-10: Added coercion-capital-and-european-states and charles-tilly; linked Tilly to Oppenheimer/Nock state-evolution references
  • 2026-05-10: Updated democracy-the-god-that-failed from stub reference to full-text-backed reference
  • 2026-05-10: Added Oppenheimer, Nock, and Hoppe state-evolution references plus Oppenheimer/Nock author nodes; updated Rothbard, Hoppe, La Boetie, and Molinari references
  • 2026-05-10: Added softwar and jason-lowery; updated the-praxeology-of-privacy with Lowery’s adjacent Bitcoin thesis
  • 2026-05-10: Added the-praxeology-of-privacy, max-hillebrand, and thus-spake-zarathustra-the-new-idol; updated Mises and Hoppe author references for Hillebrand’s downstream use of their methods
  • 2026-05-09: Added the-theory-of-money-and-credit reference article from the newly-ingested 1912 Mises treatise (closes the long-standing TMC gap behind the credit-and-deferred-payment concept article)
  • 2026-05-05: Compile pass added new references articles from the Mises and Hayek ingest

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