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Ryan’s Revolution Reading List

So I’ve had a reading list requested from me several times in the last few weeks.  Any of you reading this who know me know that I read profusely and never make any decision without first consulting multiple sides of an argument in print.  Of course, fewer and fewer of you who read me are people I know.  Sooo…yeah.  I read a lot.

Anyway, here are the books, articles, and musicians I recommend you read.  If you care to read.  Which you should.  I have included links to various bookstores that carry these if you want physical media and links to ePubs and PDF’s if you don’t.

• The Machinery of Freedom, David Friedman (DON’T END HERE.  Friedman misses crucial aspects of the truly free market and his systems of privatization are not that good.)  (Physical | PDF)
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• Man, Economy, and State, Murray Rothbard (This is an economics treatise.  It is rough sledding and 1000+ pages.  Like any book of this size, read the chapters that look interesting to you.  You really will benefit from understand Austrian Business Cycle Theory though.)
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• Human Action, Ludwig Von Mises (If you like Ron Paul, you have to read this book.  Paul goes nowhere without this tattered old tome.  In fact, I would advocate that you can’t really be a Paul supporter in good conscience and not read this book.) (Physical | ePub | PDF)
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• No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, Lysander Spooner (If you’re brainwashed into believing that the Constitution is somehow still an authoritative document, you need to read this.) (Physical | HTML)
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• For a New Liberty, Murray Rothbard (So you want practical?  Here it is.  The quintessential Libertarian tome!) (Physical | ePub | PDF)
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• Resist Not Evil!, Clarence Darrow (Sure, he defended Scopes.  Get over it.  People can be wrong about some things and spot on about others.) (Physical | ePub | PDF)
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• Advocates of Free Markets Should Embrace “Anti-Capitalism”, Gary Chartier (Necessary.) (PDF)
  Also:  Libertarian Anti-Capitalism, Charles Johnson (Again, necessary.) (HTML)
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• Agorist Class Theory, Wally Conger (I haven’t read this entirely, but what I have read is gold.  Read it.) (PDF)
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• Anarchy as Order, David S. D’Amato (HTML)
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• The Myth of a Christian Nation, Gregory Boyd (So you think America was founded a Christian nation?  Wrong!) (Physical)
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• Love & War & The Sea In Between, Josh Garrels (I have no idea where this guy falls politically but he appears to be the only “Christian” musician who even remotely understands my life.  All the others are off with their heads stuck in the heavens and apparently have no idea how to apply the Biblical gospel to everyday life.  That or they’re just out for money.) (Free Download)
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• Ending Tyranny without Violence, Murray Rothbard (HTML)
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• The Bible, God (This book is only last because most of you asking for my reading list already read it.  However, I could babble about Rothbard and Mises forever and it would make no difference if they had nothing true to say.  Here’s the deal:  The Austrian/Voluntarist/Agorist/Anarchist scheme lines up squarely with Biblical truth when it comes to championing human rights and revealing and opposing the Satanic influence of the state.  In a way, the Bible is the original resistance manual.  Just go read Acts if you don’t believe me.)

So there it is.  Ideas are found in books!  Ideas change the world!  Read, read, read!

Ryan Day Thompson, Contributor
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