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What follows is a list of resources on the philosophy of anarchy. Like our other resource pages, this will hopefully provide a go-to place as you travel down the rabbit hole of seeing the state for what it is and discovering viable alternative theories for how we can get along without government as we know it.
For anyone completely unfamiliar with the idea (or familiar, but hostile to it); anarchy does not mean violence, chaos, lack of structure, etc. It does not mean there are no rules. It is not hell on earth and it is not utopia. It is an idea, based on moral principles. There is nothing to implement. You don’t necessarily have to get everyone in a certain place to agree to anything; because there isn’t any central thing to agree to. This revolves around the idea that individuals can be left to manage their private lives, and all of the services we now think government must “provide” can be offered on the market (including law, justice, security, roads, education, etc), for less money, and without all the violence and coercion of the state. In short, as stated in the true meaning of the word, anarchy does not mean “without rules”, it literally means “without rulers”.
If the resource is available for free online, I will notate it with a * and provide a link. Otherwise, the rest can be found on Amazon or other bookstores.
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https://markstoval.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/another-reading-list-for-anarcho-capitalists/
http://peaceandmarkets.com/2014/09/24/but-we-dont-have-data-on-anarcho-capitalism/
http://www.ancapfaq.com/home.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdrBeBwHenk
http://think-squad.com/post/34040845626/can-voluntaryism-fix-the-machine#notes
General
Healing Our World – Mary Ruwart
Against the State* – Lew Rockwell
Spontaneous Order – Christopher Chase Rachels
Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society – Gary Chartier
The State – Anthony De Jassay
Understanding the State in Relation to Society and History
The Rise and Fall of Society – Frank Chodorov
Democracy: The God That Failed – Hans Hoppe
The Not So Wild Wild West – Terry Anderson
Crisis and Leviathan – Robert Higgs
The Myth of Authority and Legitimacy
The Most Dangerous Superstition – Larken Rose
No Treason – Lysander Spooner
On Ethics
The Ethics of Liberty – Rothbard
Universally Preferable Behavior – Molyneux
On Defense
The Private Production of Defense – Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Myth of National Defense – Hans Hoppe
On Law and Justice
Anarchy and the Law – Edward P. Stringham
To Serve and Protect – Bruce Benson
The Problem of Political Authority – Michael Huemer
Agorism
New Libertarian Manifesto – Samuel Edward Konkin III
An Agorist Primer – Konkin
Fiction
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
Alongside Night – J. Neil Schulman
Anarchy in New England – Joe Jarvis
The Iron Web – Larken Rose
Examples of Anarchy Throughout History
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia – James C. Scott
Private Law in the Emerald Isle – Finbar Feehan-Fitzgerald
Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society – Gary Chartier
Technology and Anarchy
Related But Not Quite Anarchy
Human Action – Ludwig von Mises
Websites
Mises.org
