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This article is from the Anarchy FAQ, by Bryan Caplan with numerous contributions by others.

What are some major anarchist writings?

This list is by no means intended to be exhaustive; nor does inclusion here necessarily indicate that the work is of particularly high quality. In particular, both Heider's and Marshall's works contain a number of embarrassing factual errors. (Some of the more glaring errors from Marshall's Demanding the Impossible appear to have been corrected in this linked exerpt).


Particularly well-written and canonical expressions of different anarchist theories are noted with an asterisk (*). Broad surveys of anarchism are noted with a number sign (#).


+ Mihail Bakunin. God and the State.


+ *Mikhail Bakunin. The Political Philosophy of Bakunin


+ Mikhail Bakunin. Statism and Anarchy.


+ Bruce Benson. The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the State.


+ Alexander Berkman. The ABC of Anarchism.


+ Etienne de la Boetie. The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (also published as The Politics of Obedience: the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude)


+ Burnett Bolloten. The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution.


+ Murray Bookchin. Post-Scarcity Anarchism.


+ Frank Brooks, ed. The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908).


+ Roy Childs. Liberty Against Power.


+ Frank Chodorov. Fugitive Essays.


+ Noam Chomsky. American Power and the New Mandarins.


+ Noam Chomsky. The Chomsky Reader.


+ Tyler Cowen, ed. The Theory of Market Failure (also published as Public Goods and Market Failures).


+ Douglas Davis and Charles Holt. Experimental Economics.


+ Ronald Fraser. Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War.


+ * David Friedman. The Machinery of Freedom.


+ William Godwin. The Anarchist Writings of William Godwin.


+ Emma Goldman. Anarchism and Other Essays.


+ *# Daniel Guerin. Anarchism: From Theory to Practice.


+ # Ulrike Heider. Anarchism: Left, Right, and Green.


+ Hans-Hermann Hoppe. A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism.


+ Anthony de Jasay. Social Contract, Free Ride.


+ Leonard Krimerman and Lewis Perry, eds. Patterns of Anarchy.


+ * Peter Kropotkin. The Essential Kropotkin.


+ Peter Kropotkin. Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution.


+ * Carl Landauer. European Socialism: A History of Ideas and Movements.


+ Bruno Leoni. Freedom and the Law.


+ Wendy McElroy. Freedom, Feminism, and the State.


+ # Peter Marshall. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism.


+ James Martin. Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908.


+ Gustave de Molinari. "The Production of Security".


+ Albert Jay Nock. Our Enemy the State.


+ Albert Jay Nock. The State of the Union.


+ Robert Nozick. Anarchy, State, and Utopia.


+ Franz Oppenheimer. The State.


+ David Osterfeld. Freedom, Society, and the State : An Investigation into the Possibility of Society without Government.


+ *# J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, eds. Anarchism, Nomos vol.19.


+ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. What is Property?


+ Murray Rothbard. Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.


+ Murray Rothbard. The Ethics of Liberty.


+ * Murray Rothbard. For a New Liberty.


+ Murray Rothbard. Power and Market.


+ David Schmidtz. The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument.


+ Lysander Spooner. The Lysander Spooner Reader.


+ * Lysander Spooner. No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority.


+ Max Stirner. The Ego and Its Own.


+ Morris and Linda Tannehill. The Market for Liberty.


+ Henry David Thoreau. The Portable Thoreau.


+ Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy on Civil Disobedience and Non- Violence.


+ Benjamin Tucker. Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One.


+ Gordon Tullock, ed. Further Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy.


+ Robert Paul Wolff. In Defence of Anarchism.


+ # George Woodcock. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements.


+ # E.V. Zenker. Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory.