The Anti-Liberal Reader

[Fade the Butcher]

This thread was inspired by Mike Huben's anti-libertarian web page. Use it to suggest books, essays, articles and so on that contain useful critiques of liberalism, libertarianism, individualism, democracy, and capitalism. I will edit the list as suggestions are made.

Aristotle. Politics
--- Nicomachean Ethics
Bellah, Robert (ed.), Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Bork, Robert H. Slouching Towards Gomorrah
Bradley, Owen. A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph De Maistre
Brighouse, Harry. Justice (Key Concepts)
Burnham, James. Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero Worship, and Heroes in History
--- The Managerial Revolution : What is Happening in the World
Evola, Julius. Men Amongst the Ruins
--- Revolt Against the Modern World
Fleming, Thomas. "Abuse Your Illusions"
Gasset, Jose Ortega y. The Revolt of the Masses
Guénon, René . Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Hammerton, James A., A Critique of Libertarianism
Hegel, G.F.W. Philosophy of Right
Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology
--- Basic Writings
Heraclitus. Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf
--- Hitler's Table Talk
Huben, Mike. Critiques of Libertarianism
Jardine, Murray. The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society
Kymlicka, Will. Contemporary Political Philosophy
LaFollette, Hugh. "Why Libertarianism is Mistaken"
Lasch, Christopher. The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
Locke, Robert. "Marxism of the Right"
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
--- Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
de Maistre, Joseph. Considerations on France
Mussolini, Benito. Fascism
Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals
--- Beyond Good and Evil
--- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
--- Will To Power
O'Meara, Michael. New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe
Plato. The Republic
--- The Laws
Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time collection
Sandel, Michael J. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political
--- Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
--- Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
--- Legality and Legitimacy
--- Political Romanticism
--- The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum
Spengler, Oswald. Decline of the West
Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History
Sunic, Tomislav. Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right
de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited
Wilson, David Sloan. Darwin's Cathedral
Yockey, Francis Parker. Imperium
--- The Enemy of Europe

[Anarch]

I would add Spengler's Decline of the West, perhaps. Julius Evola's Men Amongst the Ruins and Revolt Against the Modern World are certainly relevant. Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times by Rene Guenon would also qualify, though I haven't read Guenon.

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The Revolt of the Masses-Jose Ortega y Gasset
Darwin's Cathedral-David Sloan Wilson

edit:

Fictional works included? If so, then:

Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh
A Dance to the Music of Time collection-Anthony Powell

[Fade the Butcher]

We forgot Carl Schmitt. I will add him later.

[Basil Fawlty]

Originally Posted by FadeTheButcher

We forgot Carl Schmitt. I will add him later.

Yes, you couldn't leave him out. And what about Burnham, he should be there too.

[Fade the Butcher]

Added Schmitt, Carlyle, de Maistre, Strauss, Nietzsche, Heidegger and several others.

[Helios Panoptes]

Considerations on France by De Maistre, Collected works of Yockey

You should add "Man and Technics" by Spengler.

[Petr]

Some hammering of libertarianism from a Christian viewpoint:


http://littlegeneva.com/?p=246#comments


"I want everyone to watch this video that was designed to teach libertarianism to children, and see how anti-Christian it is at almost every turn. It begins: "The philosophy of liberty is based on the principle of self-ownership." The Bible teaches the exact opposite.

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# Harry Says: December 29th, 2004 at 5:44 am

Here are a couple of the many anti-libertarian Bible verses:

1 Cor. 6:19-20
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

1 Peter 2:15-16
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men - as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

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"You’re right that, according to libertarian ideology, children have no right to make demands of parents, or vice versa. From a purely economic view, children are liabilities, not assets. The Bible goes on to say that the husband owns the body of the wife, and the wife owns the body of the husband. This is about as anti-libertarian as you can get.

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[infoterror]

Originally Posted by Petr

"The philosophy of liberty is based on the principle of self-ownership." The Bible teaches the exact opposite.

I think common sense agrees with the Bible. We didn't create ourselves, and we're dependent upon our environment. "Liberty" is irrational selfishness, and has never been achieved.

[Anarch]

Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground.

'If God is dead, everything is permitted' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.