The State

Contents

Introduction

 

Territorialism - Sovranism

HENRY SUMNER MAINE, On the Origin of State Territorial Sovereignty (1861)

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, American Territorialism (1910)

MAX WEBER, The State as a Monopolistic Territorial Political Association (1922)

ADOLF HITLER, Lebensraum (1926)

ROBERT ARDREY, Territorialism and War (1966)

ERICH FROMM, On Territorialism and Dominance (1973)

CARL WATNER, The Territorial Assumption: Rationale for Conquest (2007)

GIAN PIERO DE BELLIS, Territory, Territoriality, Territorialism (2013)

 

Nationalism - Patriotism

JUAN BAUTISTA ALBERDI, Patriotism as State slavery (1880)

LEV NIKOLAJEVIC' TOLSTOY, Patriotism as Slavery  (1894)

EMMA GOLDMAN, Patriotism: a menace to liberty (1908)

ALBERT SCHWEITZER, Psychopathology of Nationalism (1915-1917)

CARLTON J. H. HAYES, Nationalism as a Religion (1926)

RUDOLF ROCKER, State Nationalism (1937)

ELIE KEDOURIE, Nationalism (1960)

ALEXANDER PASSERIN D’ENTRÈVES, Country and Nation (1967)

 

Imperialism - Colonialism

JOHN A. HOBSON, Moral and sentimental defence of Imperialism (1902)

RUDOLF HILFERDING, Finance Capital (1910)

JOSEPH SCHUMPETER, State Imperialism and Capitalism (1919)

PARKER THOMAS MOON, The Spread of Imperialism (1936)

CARLTON J. H. HAYES, From Nationalism to Imperialism (1941)

HANNAH ARENDT, State Power and the Bourgeoisie (1951)

A. J. P. TAYLOR, The State drive to Imperialism (1952)

WALT WHITMAN ROSTOW, Colonialism (1960)

 

Militarism - Bellicism

SIGMUND FREUD, The State as the monopolist of wrong-doing (1915)

RANDOLPH BOURNE, War is the Health of the State (1918)

SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, War is a Racket (1935)

HAROLD D. LASSWELL, The Garrison State (1941)

EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN (GEORGE ORWELL), War is Peace (1949)

DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER, On the Military-Industrial complex (1961)

LEONARD C. LEWIN, The Functions of War (1967)

WILLIAM MCGAFFIN AND ERWIN KNOLL, The Military-Industrial Complex Revisited (1969)

 

Corruption - Criminality

GEORGE WASHINGTON PLUNKITT, Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (1905)

JAMES PETER WARBASSE, State Atrocities (1915)

THORSTEIN VEBLEN, National Politics as Sanctified Gangsterism (1923)

DAVID LOTH, Public Plunder (1938)

ALBERT JAY NOCK, The Criminality of the State (1939)

ALEX COMFORT, Criminal Lunacy Exposed (1945)

PITIRIM A. SOROKIN AND WALTER A. LUNDEN, The Criminality of State Offcials (1959)

ROBERT HIGGS, The State Racket (2007)

 

Taxation - Expropriation

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Against taxation (1848)

FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT, Taxation as theft (1850)

LYSANDER SPOONER, Taxes as Robbery (1867)

PYOTR KROPOTKIN, On Taxes (1913)

JOHN BEVERLEY ROBINSON, About Taxation (1916)

H. L. MENCKEN, More of the Same (1925)

AMMON HENNACY, On the refusal to pay taxes (1954)

KARL HESS, Declaration about taxes (1969)

 

Bureaucracy

CHARLES DICKENS, The Circumlocution Office (1857)

RICHARD SIMPSON, Bureaucracy (1859)

ROBERT MICHELS, State and Party Bureaucracy (1925)

JAMES M. BECK, The Rise of Bureaucracy in the U.S.A. (1932)

BRUNO RIZZI, The Bureaucratisation of the World (1939)

MILOVAN DJILAS, The Bureaucracy as the New Class (1957)

JACQUES ELLUL, The dominance of the bureaus (1965)

C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON, The Prohibitive Procrastinator (1970)

 

Propaganda

GUSTAVE LE BON, The Propaganda by the Agitators of Crowds (1895)

ADOLF HITLER, War Propaganda (1925)

ARTHUR PONSONBY, State War Propaganda (1928)

EDWARD BERNAYS, Propaganda under Democracy (1928)

GEORGE ORWELL, The language as a tool for manipulation (1946)

SERGE TCHAKHOTINE, The rape of the masses through political propaganda (1952)

HANNAH ARENDT, Totalitarian Propaganda (1953)

VANCE PACKARD, Political Propaganda in the USA (1957)