Library of Liberty

The State

• The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
  The libertarian critique of the state.
• Defining State and Society, Wendy McElroy
• The State by Francis Dashwood Tandy
• Origins of State and Class by Albert Jay Nock
• Demystifying the State by Wendy McElroy
  Shattering the aura of legitimacy.
• The State by Jan Narveson
• Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
  by Étienne de la Boétie — Why do people obey authority?
• The Conflict Between Authority and Autonomy
  by Robert Paul Wolff  Moral autonomy vs. authority.
• The Anarchist-Voluntaryist Argument
  by Hogeye Bill

Murray Rothbard
• Objectivism and the State:
  An Open Letter to Ayn Rand by Roy Childs
  Anarchism vs. minarchism.
• Government is a Quack Faith-Healer
  by Wolf DeVoon
• The Physiology of Plunder by Frederic Bastiat
• The Immorality of the State by Mikhail Bakunin
• Relation of the State to the Individual
  by Benjamin Tucker
• The Sovereign Individual - East of Eden by Davidson & Rees-Mogg
  The Agricultural Revolution and the Sophistication of Violence
• American Fascism by Lew Rockwell   How modern fascism works.

Robert Higgs
• Examining Government by Dale Eastman
• Conservatism: An Obituary by Ayn Rand
• The Gun in the Room by Stefan Molyneux
• Why We Couldn't Abolish Slavery Then and Can't Abolish Government Now by Robert Higgs

War and Peace

• The Roots of War by Ayn Rand
  Statism and the tribal mentality.

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

Justice and Natural Law

• The Non-Aggression Axiom of Libertarianism by Walter Block
• The Nature of Law by Roderick T. Long - Anarchism qua polycentric law.
• The Law by Frederic Bastiat - The quintessential statement of Natural Law.
• Property and Criminality by Murray Rothbard
• The Right to Ignore the State by Herbert Spencer
• Natural Law by Lysander Spooner - Classic essay on justice and natural law.
• Man's Rights by Ayn Rand - What are rights?
• Towards a Proprietary Theory of Justice by Carl Watner
  Self-ownership, homesteading, non-aggression, and voluntaryist anarchism.
• Contractarian FAQ by Jan Narveson
• The Freeman's Constitution by Wolf DeVoon
• Objectivist Ethics by Ayn Rand
• The Puzzle of Cooperation by Robert Ellickson - The Game Theory of Liberty.
• Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights by Stephan Kinsella

Free Market Security

• Polycentric Law by Tom W. Bell - An introduction.
• Police, Courts, and Laws - on the Market
  by David Friedman
  A simple explanation of how disputes are resolved.
• Defense Services on the Free Market
  by Murray Rothbard - How it would work.
• Anarchy and Efficient Law by David Friedman
  Economic analysis of free-market protection agencies.
• Private Creation and Enforcement of Law:
  A Historical Case by David Friedman
  Private law in Classical Iceland.
• The Market for Liberty by Morris & Linda Tannehill (1970)
• The Idea of a Private Law Society by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• The Production of Security by Gustave de Molinari
  First ever anarcho-capitalist essay, 1849.
• What is Kritarchy? by Frank van Dun
• Defence of Person and Property by Francis Dashwood Tandy
• Also see Polycentric Law Links and Competing PDA links.

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
• Liberty and Taxation by Benjamin R. Tucker

Against Political Activism

• Neither Bullets Nor Ballots by Wendy McElroy
  Against electoral 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.

Strategy

• On Centralization, Decentralization, & Self-Defense by by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• What is a Sovereign Individual? by Scamdog - Be a PT, perpetual traveler.
• Advocates of Freed Markets Should Support Capitalism Hogeye remix.
• Assassination Politics by Jim Bell - Off the statist bastards.
• New Libertarian Manifesto by SEK III - Agorism; use the counter-economy.
• Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard by Daniel B. Klein
  'Open tent' definition of libertarianism. Two styles of argumentation.
• The Principle of Federation by Pierre Proudhon
• Gulching from Wikibin
• Do You Hate the State? by Murray Rothbard
• Nationalism and Secession by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• The "Philosophical Anarchists" by Victor Yarros & Benjamin Tucker
• Community Technology by Karl Hess

Property and Economics

• What is Capitalism? by Ayn Rand
• Property Panarchy by Hogeye Bill
• Capital by Frederic Bastiat
  Interest is natural and good, contra Proudhon.
• What Is Money? by Frederic Bastiat
  Not the same as wealth!
• The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine:
  An Economist's View by Murray Rothbard
• What is Property? by Pierre Proudhon
  Short answer: Decreed property is theft; entitled property is liberty.
• The Theory of Property by Pierre Proudhon
• Are We All Mutualists? by Kevin Carson
  
• Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique by Murray Rothbard
  Lockean and Usufructory Property; Panarchy & Mutual Defense Associations
• Peace and Free Trade: Essential Essays - various authors
• From Freedom to Bondage by Herbert Spencer - Critique of statist socialism.

Issues

• A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration by Walter Block
  Migration is a victimless “crime.” There should be no restrictions whatsoever.
• Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State by Murray Rothbard
• The Authoritarian Right and Left by Derrick Broze
  Social Justice Warriors, the Alt-Right, and what really matters - liberty.
• How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis by Roderick T. Long
  Medical Insurance that Worked - Until Government "Fixed" It
• Harming Our Health by Mary Ruwart
  How and why medical licensure is counter-productive.
• Protecting Ourselves to Death by Mary Ruwart
  How and why medical regulation does a lot more harm than good.
• iFeminism vs Gender Feminism by Wendy McElroy
• Mises' Legacy to Feminism by Wendy McElroy
• The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus by Ayn Rand

Schools of Anarchism

• An Overview of Individualist Anarchist Thought by Joe Peacott

Josiah Warren
• Anarchism without Hyphens by Karl Hess
• 21st Century Anarchism by Hogeye Bill
• Anarchism by Voltairine de Cleyre
  The four main types.
• The Individualist and the Communist. A Dialogue.
  by Rosa Slobodinsky & Voltairine de Cleyre (1891)
• Individualist Anarchism vs. Communist Anarchism & Libertarianism
  by Wendy McElroy
• Anarcho-capitalism: Responses to Ten Objections
  by Roderick T. Long
• Introduction to Voluntaryism: The Art of Not Being Governed
  by Peter Miller
• Anarchism (Anarchism and Crime) by Joseph Labadie
• Geoanarchism by Fred Foldvary
• What is Mutualism? by Clarence Lee Swartz
• Revolutionary Catechism by Mikhail Bakunin
• The Individual and His Property by Max Stirner
• State Socialism and Anarchism:
  How far they agree and wherein they differ
  by Benjamin Tucker
• Armies that Overlap by Benjamin Tucker
• Autarchy Versus Anarchy by Robert LeFevre
• Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal by Terp Krokinpot
• Understanding Closet Anarcho-capitalism by Hogeye Bill
• Anarcho-capitalist Accelerationism by Hogeye Bill

History

• A Vindication of Natural Society
  by Edmund Burke   The first anarchist essay.
• The Peaceful Revolutionist by Josiah Warren
  Excerpts from the first anarchist periodical (1833).
• Panarchy by P.E. de Puydt (1860)
• Anarchism & American Traditions by Voltairine de Cleyre
  American history from an anarchist perspective.
• Ancient Stateless Civilization: Bronze Age India & the State in History
  by Thomas J. Thompson (2006)
• Big Business and the Rise of American Statism
  by Roy Childs (1971)
• Commodore Vanderbilt and the Steamship Industry
  by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. (1987)

Manifestos & Other

• The Anti-Subjectivist Manifesto: The Case for Consent
  by Christian G. Moore & Patrick Smith
• Libertarianism: Manual to Humanity by Brian Gray
  A libertarian manifesto and explanation of concepts.
• Libertarian Class Analysis by Sheldon Richman
• Marxist & Austrian Class Analysis by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism by Brad Spangler
• Anarcho-socialism as Conducted Capitalism by Hogeye Bill
• Deep Anarchy by Max T. O'Connor
• Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
• Political Philosophy for Daniel C. Burton by Daniel Burton
  Another anarcho-capitalist manifesto.
• Response To The Anarchist FAQ by Richard A. Garner
  Definition of anarchism and some history. Answer to anarcho-socialist sectarians.
• Introduction to "Markets, not Corporatism"
  Translated from Marxian to Rothbardian by Hogeye Bill
• The Principles of Anarchist Federation
  Remix of Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth with an ancap perspective.
• The Problem of Political Authority
  An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
  Complete book by Michael Huemer. The ultimate libertarian reference!
• The State of Nature, Ch. 2 of Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
  A minarchist's failed argument that anarchy leads to a minimal State.
• End of Evil, Hogeye Remix.
  
• Classical Liberalism versus Anarcho-capitalism by Jesús Huerta de Soto
  The false assumptions of classical liberalism.
• The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made by Ayn Rand.
• The Only Path To Tomorrow by Ayn Rand.