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Old 05-17-2007, 05:09 PM   #11
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Another good Marxism site is:

marx2mao.com

It covers different ground than Marxists.org, including a lot of Mao's stuff.
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Old 05-23-2007, 01:44 PM   #13
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For a history of US imperialism both through CIA proxy wars/covert ops and IMF/World Bank SAPs, nothing else comes close to http://thirdworldtraveler.com/
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Old 05-23-2007, 09:49 PM   #14
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Deserves it's own post. Absolutely indespensable.

A People's History of the United States

http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
An unbelievably good source for documents, historical essays, from a radical point of view.

History Is a Weapon

http://www.historyisaweapon.org/indextrue.html

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Old 05-24-2007, 02:16 PM   #15
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Concieved in Liberty

Murray Rothbard's Powerful Four-part Book on the Origins of America's libertarian Revolution, and the liberal ideals and circumstances that propelled it:

* Volume One covers the discovery of the Americas and the colonies in the 17th century (531 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume One in pdf format

* Volume Two covers the period of "salutary neglect" in the first half of the 18th century (294 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume Two in pdf format

* Volume Three covers the advance to revolution, from 1760-1775 (373 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume Three in pdf format

* Volume Four covers the political, military, and ideological history of the revolution and after (470 pages, including index).
o Full text of Volume Four in pdf format


A Collection of Rothbard's Writings


Also the Mises Institute has a number of other scholarly texts on economics and history, highly recomended.

As for von Mises himself, a number of his books are avaliable online.

* The Free Market and Its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation Lecture Series, Volume 1, with an introduction by Richard Ebeling. Copyright 2004 Foundation for Economic Education. All rights reserved.
* Nine Other Books by Mises, made available online by the Liberty Fund, publishers of the Complete Works of Ludwig von Mises
* Human Action: A treatise on economics 1949 (4th edition, 1996). San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes. ISBN 0-930073-18-5. Made available online by The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* Human Action: The Scholars Edition Auburn, Alabama: Mises Institute, 1999. Re-issue of the classic 1949 Edition with new introduction and expanded index.
* A Critique of Interventionism, The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Libertarian Press 1990.
* Economic Freedom and Interventionism, The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow Second Edition, with a New Introduction by Bettina Bien Greaves, The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics, The Ludwig von Mises Institute.
* Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition, English edition Copyright 1985 The Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY. Translation by Ralph Raico. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute, 2000. *The Theory of Money and Credit. 1912 integration of microeconomics and macroeconomics. ISBN 0-913966-71-1. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute.
* Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis Von Mises' critique of Socialism
* Theory and History. 1957 treatise on social and economic evolution, with a preface by Murray N. Rothbard. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute, 2000.
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Old 05-25-2007, 06:19 AM   #16
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Von Hayek's influential treatise on the links between socialism, fascism, and central planning, the Road to Serfdom.
A somewhat abridged readers digest version is avaliable from the American Enterprise Institute.

John T. Flynn's book onthe connections between fascism, Roosevelt's New Deal, and modern leftism and statism, As We Go Marching.

John Ray, an acedemic from Australia with a wide range of interests, has alos written extensively on fascism.

Italian Fascism and Modern Leftism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/06/...icle.html#1120

Hitler and Socialism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...-internet.html

Class Make-Up of Fascism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...n-fascism.html

Roots of fascism in American "Progressive" Movement
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/05/...-american.html

Fascist nature of Sweden Under the Social Democrats
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...ow-motion.html

More of his writings are avaliable here
http://tongue-tied2.blogspot.com/
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The Myth of the Rule of Law
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Old 06-09-2007, 01:04 AM   #18
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Here's a few excellent Mutualist/left-libertarian/General and market anarchist sources.

Kevin Carson, a modern Mutualist.

http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/

Roderick Long's Market anarchist page.

http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm

General anti-authoritarian.

http://www.panarchy.org/
http://www.Mises.org
http://www.blackcrayon.com/
http://filer.case.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html
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Quote:
Italian Fascism and Modern Leftism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/06/...icle.html#1120

Hitler and Socialism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...-internet.html

Class Make-Up of Fascism
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...n-fascism.html

Roots of fascism in American "Progressive" Movement
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/05/...-american.html

Fascist nature of Sweden Under the Social Democrats
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/...ow-motion.html
Your links are dead, although looking at the titles that has probably improved them somewhat.
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The Rise of Corporations
ETA:
How Corporations Operate Tax Free
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