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Theory

Here will be the absolute bulk of the library's resources. If you can't find something you're looking for here, try doing a quick search of Economics or The Basics. Some of the works here aren't exactly pure theory, many are just useful articles or short videos worth consuming. Everything here has something of value to offer, so feel free to consume the entire library!

 


Agorists = The Anti-Utopian Visionaries - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1978


A History of the Libertarian Movement - Roy A. Childs Jr
(Video)
1983


A Letter to Grover Cleveland - Lysander Spooner
(Text)
1886

 
An Anti-Capitalism Anarcho-Capitalist - Per Bylund
(Text)
2004
 

An AR-15 in Every Home - Cody Wilson
(Video)
2016


Anarchism - Voltairine de Cleyre
(Text) - (Audio)
1901


Anarchism and Anarcho-Capitalism - Per Bylund
(Video)
2019
 

Anarchism and Morality - Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2020

 
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
(Text) - (Audio)
1910
 
 

Anarchism vs. Minarchism - LiquidZulu vs. Roger Mayhem
(Video)
2023
 
 

Anarchist Communism - Peter Kropotkin
(Text)
1927


Anarchist Cookbook - Keith McHenry
(Text)
2015
 

Anarchist Morality - Peter Kropotkin
(Text) - (Audio)
1897

 
Anarcho-Capitalism: The Solution to Law - LiquidZulu
(Video)
2022
 

Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice - Rudolf Rocker
(Text) - (Audio)
1938

 
Anarchy - Errico Malatesta
(Text) - (Audio)
1891
 
 
Anarchy Debate: Michael Malice vs. Yaron Brook
(Video)
2021
 

An Anarchist Program - Errico Malatesta
(Text) - (Audio)
1899

 
Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard
(Text) - (Audio)
1965
 

An Interview with Voltairine de Cleyre - Voltairine de Cleyre
(Transcript)
1894


An Open Letter to Ayn Rand - Roy A. Childs Jr
(Text) - (Audio)
1969

 
A Non-Liberal Case Against Borders - Esoteric Entity
(Video​)
2018
 

An Open Letter to Barry Goldwater - Karl Hess
(Text)
1969

 
A Preliminary Critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics - Adam Knott
(Text)
2013
 

Answering the Work or Die Problem - Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2019


Anti-Gun? Check Your Privilege
(Article)
2020

 
Are "Conspiracy Theories" Reasonable? - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2019
 
 
Are We All Mutualists? - Kevin Carson
(Text) - (Audio)
2015
 
 
Are We Good Enough? - Peter Kropotkin
(Text) - (Audio)
1888


 
A Strategy for Forcing the State Back - Per Bylund
(Text)
2006
 

Ayn Rand Was Not a Libertarian - Ritz
(Article)
2012

 
Bad Statist Arguments: The Warlords Problem - Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2019
 

Better Off Stateless: Somalia Before and After Government Collapse - Peter Leeson
(Study)
2007

 

Bigger is Better...? - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008
 

Biopolitics: A Reader - Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze
(Text)
2013
 

Black Propaganda Matters - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2020


 
Building a New Libertarian Movement - Sam Konkin and Wally Conger
(Text)
2001
 
 
Calling All Haters of Anarcho-Capitalism - William Gillis
(Text)
2007
 

Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
(Text) - (Audio)
1849


Collected Writings of Dread Pirate Roberts - Ross Ulbricht
(Text)
2013


Community Technology - Karl Hess
(Text) - (Audio)
1979

 
Corporativism Revivus - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1977


Counter-Economics: From the Back Alleys to the Stars - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1985

 
Crypto-Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias - Peter Ludlow
(Text)
2001

 
David Friedman Is Not an Ancap - LiquidZulu
(Video)
2022
 

Debate on Libertarian Strategy - Murray Rothbard vs. Sam Konkin
(Rothbard) - (Konkin's Reply)
1981

 
Deleuze: Control Societies and Cybernetic Posthumanism - Plastic Pills
(Video)
2020
 

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
(Text) - (Audio)
1975


 
DIY - "Do It Yourself" - Per Bylund
(Text)
2007


Do Anarchists Ignore Political Struggle? - Zoe Baker
(Video)
2019


Education: Free and Compulsory - Murray Rothbard
(Text) - (Audio)
1979


Elements of Liberty - Karl Hess
(Video Series)
1987


Ethics of Argumentation - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
(Lecture)
2016

 
Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression - Roderick Long
(Text)
2013
 

For a New Liberty - Murray Rothbard
(Text) - (Audio)
1973

 
Foucault: Biopower, Governmentality, and the Subject - Then & Now
(Video)
2019
 

Foundations of Libertarian Ethics - Roderick Long
(Audio) - (YouTube)
2006

 
Free Choice and Indeterminism in Aristotle and Later Antiquity - Roderick Long
(Full Dissertation)
1992
 

Free Market Capitalism Is Oxymoronic - Tak Kak
(Video)
2022


Government Explained - Man Against the State
(Video)
2012


Great Minds: The Latter Wittgenstein - Michael Sugrue
(Video)
1992

 
Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Argumentation Ethic: A Critique - Bob Murphy and Gene Callahan
(Text)
2014
 
 
Here, Please Read My Pamphlet! - Per Bylund

(Text)
2004


Hierarchy, Corporations, and Pushing Back Against the State Without Politics - Per Bylund
(Interview)
2020


History of an Idea - Roderick Long
(Text)
2012
 

History of the Libertarian Movement - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1999
 

Hobbes' Contradiction - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
(Audio)
2007


How Compulsory Education Encourages Bullying and Suicide - Vishal Wilde
(Text)
2017


How Low Can Lew Rockwell Go? - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2015

 
How I Became a Libertarian - Murray Rothbard
(Video)
1981
 

How State Power Perpetuates Transphobic Violence - Selena Rose
(Text)
2022

 
How to Opt Out of the Technocratic State - Derrick Broze and Sam Konkin
(Text)
2020
 

How to Reach the Left - Roderick Long
(Video)
2011


How We Come to Own Ourselves - Stephen Kinsella

(Text)
2006
 

I Am an Anarchist - Lucy Parsons
(Text) - (Audio)
1886

 
Industrial Society and its Future - Theodore Kaczynski
(Text) - (Audio)
1995
 

Instead of a Book: By a Man Too Busy to Write One - Benjamin Tucker
(Collection of Essays)
1897

 
Interview with Reason - Murray Bookchin
(Text)
1979
 

In the Corporate-State Education System, You’re the Product - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2013


Introduction to Agorism - Sam Konkin
(Video)
1989

 
Introduction to Libertarian Class Theory - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1973
 
 
Invisible Hands and Incantations: The Mystification of State Power - Roderick Long
(Lecture)
2011
 

 
Immortalism - Hyperontic
(Video)
2018
 
 
Is Tucker Carlson Propaganda? - Civil Offense, Into the Agora, and Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2023
 

Just Say No - Karl Hess
(Video)
1983


Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
(Text) - (Audio)
1939


Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Postmodernism - CCK Philosophy
(Video)
2018

 
Land-Locked: A Critique of Carson on Property Rights - Roderick Long
(Text)
2014
 

Law and Authority - Peter Kropotkin
(Text) - (Audio)
1886


Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty - Murray Rothbard
(Text) - (Audio)
1965


Left-Libertarian Class Theory and Virtue Ethics - Roderick Long
(Audio)

2020


Let's Talk: Left-Libertarianism - Sheldon Richmond vs. Walter Block
(Video)
2015


 
Letter to La Liberté - Mikhail Bakunin
(Text)
1872


Letter to Karl Marx - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(Text)
1846


Libertarian Anti-Capitalism - Charles Johnson
(Audio)
2021


Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be
Solved? - Roderick Long and Charles Johnson
(Text)
2005

 
Libertarian Strategy - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1975
 
 
Liberty and Fatalism, Determinism and Will - Errico Malatesta
(Text)
1935
 

Liberty and Responsibility of the Individual - Josiah Warren
(Text)
1852

 
Life Without Law - Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
(Text) - (Audio)
2013
 

Listen, Marxist! - Murray Bookchin
(Text)
1969


 
Man and Matter: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Justification
of Ownership in Land from the Basis of Self-Ownership - Per Bylund
(Text)
2005
 

Market Anarchism Interview - Per Bylund
(Text)
2016


Markets vs. Capitalism in The ABCs of Communism - Agoric Cafe
(Video)
2020

 
"Markets Not Capitalism" Says Professor Gary Chartier - ReasonTV
(Video)

2012
 

Marx and Engels Were Not Egalitarians
(Text) - (Video)
2017
 
 
Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
(Text)
1990
 

Means and Ends: The Anarchist Critique of Seizing State Power - Zoe Baker
(Video)
2019


 
Moral Equivalence in War - Laurie Calhoun
(Text)
2023
 
 
My View of Capitalism - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008
 

Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
(Text) - (Audio)
-350


Natural Law: The Science of Justice - Lysander Spooner
(Text) - (Audio)
1882

 
On Gun Rights - Malcom X
(Video)
1963


On Human Nature - Noam Chomsky vs. Michel Foucault
(Video)
1971
 

 
On Inequality: The Threat to Liberty - Per Bylund
(Text)
2007
 

On Liberty and Necessity - William Belsham
(Text)
1789

 

On the "Ron Paul Problem" - Per Bylund

(Text)
2007
 

On Virtue Ethics - Rosalind Hursthouse
(Text)
1999
 

Operation Choke Point: The Government's Covert War on Small Business - ReasonTV
(Video)
2015

 
Our Enemy, the Party - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1980
 

Our Enemy, the State - Albert Jay Nock
(Text) - (Audio)
1935


Patriotism and Government - Leo Tolstoy
(Text) - (Audio)
1900

 

​ Peter Kropotkin: Recollections and Criticisms of an Old Friend - Errico Malatesta
(Text)
1931
 

Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Text) - (Audio)
1953


Philosophical Investigations (Sentence by Sentence) - Wittgenstein Aficionados
(Video)
2018


Philosophy Presentation - Cody Wilson
(Video)
2012



Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
(Text) - (Audio)
1946


 
Positive Aspects of the Police State - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008
 
 
Posthumanism - Hyperontic
(Video)
2020
 

Postmodernism Is Not Identity Politics - CCK Philosophy
(Video)
2018


Postmodern Neo-Marxism: Jordan Peterson's Shadow - The Living Philosophy
(Video)
2022


Practical Tools for Libertarians - Karl Hess
(Video)
1985

 
Praxeology, Ethics, and Libertarianism - Kris Borer
(Video)
2015
 
 
Private Property or Possession: A Synthesis - Per Bylund
(Text)
2005
 

Propaganda - Edward Bernays
(Text) - (Audio)
1928
 

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes - Jacques Ellul
(Text) - (Audio)
1962


Pro-Government Anarchists - Errico Malatesta 
(Text)
1916

 
Purity Spiraling - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2020


 

Racial Determinism in the Works of Ludwig von Mises - Phillip Magness

(Text)

2019

 


Razorfist's Terrible Intellectual Property Rant: A Measured Response - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2020
 

Reason's Misplaced Condescension - Kevin Carson
(Text) - (Audio)
2015


Reformism - Errico Malatesta
(Text) - (Audio)
1920

 

Refugees, Property Rights, and Open Borders - Per Bylund
(Video)
2015
 
 
 
Remembering Those Who Perished - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008
 

Rescuing the Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle - Billy Christmas
(Text)
2017
 

 
Responding to Klein and Rothbard On Agorist Organization
(Text)
2009
 

Rhetoric for Radicals - Jason Del Gandio
(Text)
2008
 

Roderick Long Interviews Kevin Carson - Agoric Cafe
(Video)
2020


Rothbard's "Left and Right" 40 Years Later - Roderick Long
(Video)
2006


 
Singularity - Hyperontic
(Video)
2023
 

Simulacrum and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard
(Text) - (Audio)
1981


 
Slaves Playing Slaves - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008
 

Smashing the State for Fun and Profit Since 1969: An Interview - Sam Konkin
(Text)
2002


Society Without a State - Murray Rothbard
(Text)
1974
 
 

State Media, Vivek 2024, and Gay Obama!? - Civil Offense and Into the Agora
(Video)
2023
 

Statism and Anarchy - Mikhail Bakunin
(Text)
1873
 

Sympathy for the Devil - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2005


Talk at CounterCon II - Sam Konkin
(Audio)
1975


Taoism and Anarchism - Josh
(Text) - (Audio)
2005

 
Terrifying Declassified Government Documents - ReddiTV
(Video)
2019
 

 
Thank You, Ron Paul - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008
 

The 2024 Lineup: Trump, RFK Jr., Vivek vs. the Deep State? - Civil Offense and Into the Agora
(Audio)
2023
 

The Capitalist System - Mikhail Bakunin
(Text) - (Audio)
1871


The Case Against Repeal - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1978


The Common "Logic" of Compulsory Education,
Homophobia, and Transphobia - Vishal Wilde
(Text)
2017


The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
(Text) - (Audio)
1892


The Creation of Order in Humanity - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(Text)
1843

 

The Criminality of the State - Albert Jay Nock
(Text)
1939
 

The Culture War Is a Lie - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2019
 

The Desktop Regulatory State - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2016


The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Anarchy - Errico Malatesta
(Text) - (Audio)
1919


The End of Libertarians - Kevin Carson
(Text) - (Video)
2015

 

The History of Libertarianism (and Anarchism) - Civil Offense and Into the Agora
(Video)
2022
 

The Homebrew Industrial Revolution - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2010

 
The Hoppriori Argument - Roderick Long
(Text)
2004


The Immigration Issue in Libertarianism - Per Bylund
(Text)
2018


The Inevitable Death of Gun Control - Cody Wilson
(Video)
2018

 
The Last, Whole Introduction to Agorism - Sam Konkin
(Text)
1995
 
 
The Left-Rothbardians - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2008
 
 
The Libertarian Case Against Deregulation - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2020

 
The Libertarian Immigration Conundrum - Per Bylund
(Text)
2006
 

The Libertarian Party Espouses Actual Libertarianism for Once - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2020


The Libertarian Party, Pro and Con - Sam Konkin vs. David Nolan
(Text)
1972


The Libertarian Tradition - Jeff Riggenbach
(Podcast Series)
2010​
 

 
The Magician State: Revealing the Multiple-Outs Theory - Peta
(Text)
2023

 
 
The Moral Case for Open Borders - LiquidZulu
(Video)
2023
 

The Most Disgusting Thing the Government is Currently Doing - Esoteric Entity and Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2019


The Mulford Act - New Mythology
(Video)
2020

 
The Nature and Destination of Government - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(Text)
1849


The Obviousness of Anarchy - John Hasnas
(Text) - (Audio)
2008


The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State - Mikail Bakunin
(Text)
1871

 
The Political Illusion - Jacques Ellul
(Text)
1967
 

The Poverty of Historicism - Karl Popper
(Text)
1957


The Production of Security - Gustave de Molinari
(Text) - (Audio)
1949


The Progressive Era - Murray Rothbard
(Text) - (Audio)
1970-1995


The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek
(Text) - (Audio)
1944


The Road to Serfdom: A Critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Esoteric Entity and Filthy Heritic
(Video)
2020


The Role of Community in the Commitment to Liberty - Karl Hess
(Video)
1984

 
The Ron Paul Problem - Per Bylund
(Text)
2007
 

The Science of Society - Stephen Pearl Andrews
(Text)
1852


The Sovereign Individual - James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
(Text)
1997


 
The State - Franz Oppenheimer
(Text)
1919
 

The State: Its Historic Role - Peter Kropotkin
(Text) - (Audio)
1896


The State: Its Nature, Object, and Destination - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(Text)
1849

 
The Statist Mindset of Anarchists - Per Bylund
(Text)
2007
 

The Subject and Power - Michel Foucault
(Text)
1982


The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul
(Text) - (Audio)
1957

 
The 'Thorny Question' of Public Property - Per Bylund
(Text)
2020


 

The Trouble with Socialist Anarchism - Per Bylund

(Text)

2019

​


The Truth About Intellectual Property - Esoteric Entity and Filthy Heretic
(Video)

2019
 

Thick vs. Thin Libertarianism Debate - Walter Block vs. Roderick Long
(Video)
2015


Tools to Dismantle the State - Karl Hess
(Video)
1986

 
Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class - Roderick Long
(Text)
1998
 

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Text) - (Audio)
1921


Transhumanism - Hyperontic

(Video)
2019

 
Twelve Theses on Libertarian Eudaimonism - Roderick Long
(Text)
2012
 

Vices are Not Crimes - Lysander Spooner
(Text) - (Audio)
1875


Virtue Ethics and Libertarianism - Roderick Long
(Video)
2015


Virtue Ethics Interview - Julia Annas
(Audio)
2014


Virtue Theory and Abortion - Rosalind Hursthouse
(Text)
1991


 

Vivek Ramaswamy and the "Anti-Establishment" 2024 Election - Ahmed Mlih

(Text)

2023

 


Voluntary Socialism - Francis Tandy
(Text)
1896


 
Vulgar Libertarianism - Per Bylund
(Text)
2008


War Guilt in the Middle East - Murray Rothbard
(Text)
1967
 
 
War, Peace, and the State - Murray Rothbard
(Text) - (Audio)
1963
 

Wealth Shown to Scale - Matt Korostoff
(Data)
2021
 
 
What Are Societies of Control? - CCK Philosophy
(Video)
2019


What Empire Does to a Culture - Roderick Long
(Video)
2006


What Is a Libertarian? - Robert Poole vs. Sam Konkin
(Vide0)
1985


What Is a Simulacrum? - Carnades.org
(Video)
2021


What Is Epistemology? - Carnades.org
(Video)
2018


What Is Property? - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(Text) - (Audio)
1840


What Is the Alliance of the Libertarian Left? - Esoteric Entity
(Video)
2020

 
What You Aren't Hearing About Covid - Esoteric Entity and Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2020
 
 
Who Invented the Internet? And Why Is It Broken? - Esoteric Entity and Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2020

 
Why Does Justice Have Good Consequences? - Roderick Long
(Text)
2002


Why I Am a Left Libertarian - Jeff Riggenbach
(Text) - (Audio)
2015
 
 
Why Libertarians Should Be Social Justice Warriors - Roderick Long
(Text)
2019
 
 

Why Libertarians Should Reject Capitalism - Esoteric Entity
(Vide0)
2018
 

Why Oil Is So Important In Geopolitics - Esoteric Entity and Filthy Heretic
(Video)
2018

 
Will Free Markets Recreate Corporate Capitalism? - Kevin Carson
(Text)
2015
 

Willie Lynch Letter - Willie Lynch
(Text)
1712
 
 
Why Artists Shouldn't Own Their Art - LiquidZulu
(Video)
2022
 
 
Why Drunk Driving Should Not Be a Crime - LiquidZulu
(Video)
2021
 

Yes, Anarcho-Capitalists are Anarchists - Springtime of Nations
(Video)
2021


Your Constitutional Right to Free Pudding - Filthy Heretic 
(Video)

2021

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