ISBN:
9783319648941
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (349 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Hart, David M Social Class and State Power : Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Political sociology
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Power (Social sciences)
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Discerning an Alternative Tradition -- II. The Shape of the Alternative Tradition: Vocabularies and Activities -- III. Intellectual Currents and Counter-Currents -- IV. Identifying Classes -- V. The Marxist Detour -- VI. Class and the Means of Production -- VII. Looking Forward -- Contents -- Part I: Classic Works of Classical Liberal Class Analysis -- Chapter 1: Richard Overton, ``Monopolists as Frogs and Vermin´´ (1641) -- Chapter 2: Adam Smith, ``On Conspiracies, Monopolies, and Unproductive Labour´´ (1776) -- Chapter 3: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1792) -- Chapter I. Of Society and Civilization -- Chapter II. Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments -- Chapter III. Of the Old and New Systems of Government -- Chapter 4: Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (June 1792) -- Chapter 5: William Godwin, ``Of Courts, Subjects, and Pensions´´ (1793) -- Chapter V. Of Courts and Ministers -- Chapter VI. Of Subjects -- Chapter IX. Of Pensions and Salaries -- Chapter 6: Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism (1795) -- Section XXIX. Of the Despotism of Influence -- While the Forms of a Free Constitution Are Preserved -- Section XXX. The Spirit of Despotism Delights in War or Systematic Murder -- Chapter 7: Jeremy Bentham, ``Causes of All Mischiefs,´´ Plan of Parliamentary Reform (1817) -- Chapter 8: Jeremy Bentham, ``How the Demand for Political Fallacies Is Created by the State of Interests,´´ The Book of Fallac... -- Chapter 9: Thomas Hodgskin, ``On Obedience as the Object of Legislation´´ (1832) -- Chapter 10: William Leggett, ``The Lordlings of the Paper Dynasty´´ (1834) -- Chapter 11: James Mill, ``On Those Who Pillage and Those Who Are Pillaged´´ (1835) -- Chapter 12: John Wade, ``The Aristocracy and the Oligarchy´´ (1835)
Abstract:
Salaries and Pensions Exceeding One Thousand Pounds -- Chapter 13: Adolphe Blanqui, ``The Class Which Does Not Kill or Pillage´´ (1837) -- Chapter 14: Richard Cobden, ``England Is a Perfect Paradise for the Aristocracy´´ (1845-49) -- Free Trade. XVIII. Birmingham, November 13, 1845 -- Free Trade. XIX. London, December 17, 1845 -- Parliamentary Reform. II. London, November 26, 1849 -- Free Trade. XXIV. Leeds, December 18, 1849 -- Chapter 15: Frédéric Bastiat, ``The English Oligarchy´´ (1845) -- Chapter 16: Frédéric Bastiat, ``The Physiology of Plunder´´ (1847) -- Chapter 17: John C. Calhoun, ``Tax Payers versus Tax Receivers´´ (1849) -- Chapter 18: Charles Renouard, ``Robbers as Parasites´´ (1852) -- Chapter 19: Gustave de Molinari, ``The Nobility as Conquering Plunderers´´ (1852) -- Chapter 20: Augustin Thierry, ``The Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie´´ (1853) -- Chapter 21: Herbert Spencer, ``The Class-Bias´´ (1873) -- Chapter 22: Herbert Spencer, ``The Militant Type of Society´´ (1882) -- Chapter 23: Lysander Spooner, No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority (1870) -- Section XVIII -- Section XIX -- Chapter 24: Lysander Spooner, Natural Law Contrasted with Legislation (1882) -- Section I -- Section II -- Section III -- Section IV -- Chapter 25: William Graham Sumner, ``The Forgotten Man´´ (1883) -- Chapter 26: William Graham Sumner, ``Democracy and Plutocracy´´ (Undated) -- Chapter 27: Benjamin R. Tucker, ``The Four Monopolies: Money, Land, Tariffs, and Patents´´ (1888) -- Chapter 28: Franz Oppenheimer, ``The Economic Versus the Political Means of Acquiring Wealth´´ (1908) -- (a) Political and Economic Means -- (d) The Genesis of the State -- Chapter 29: Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy, the State (1935) -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 30: Ludwig von Mises, ``On Castes, Classes, and Group Interests´´ (1945) -- I -- II -- III
Abstract:
Part II: Contemporary Interpretations of Classical Liberal Class Analysis -- Chapter 31: Murray N. Rothbard, ``The Anatomy of the State´´ (1965) -- What the State Is Not -- What the State Is -- How the State Preserves Itself -- How the State Transcends Its Limits -- What the State Fears -- History as a Race Between State Power and Social Power -- Chapter 32: Roy A. Childs, Jr., ``Big Business and the Rise of American Statism´´ (1969, 1971) -- Conflicting Schools of Thought -- The Roots of Regulation -- Regulation Comes to the Rest of the Economy -- Chapter 33: Walter E. Grinder and John Hagel, ``Toward a Theory of State Capitalism: Ultimate Decision-Making and Class Struct... -- []II. The Class Structure of State Capitalist Systems -- Introduction -- The Circulation of Elites in Market Systems -- Political Intervention as the Source of Class Conflict -- A Class within a Class: The Ruling Class as Ultimate Decision-Makers -- The Taxonomy of the Political Class -- The Agents of Ideological Hegemony: Legitimating the Illegitimate -- Social Stratification within the State Capitalist System -- The ``Foxes´´ and the ``Lions´´: Tension within the Ruling Class -- III. Conclusion -- Chapter 34: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, ``Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis´´ (1990) -- Chapter 35: Roderick T. Long, ``Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class´´ (1998) -- I. Introduction -- II. Libertarianisms -- III. Theories of Class -- IV. Statocrats and Plutocrats -- V. Two Cheers for Smith, One Cheer for Rousseau -- About the Editors -- Index
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