Social Class and State Power Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition [Hardcover]

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysisoften associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position. Social Class and State Power documents the rich tradition of liberal class theory, its rediscovery in the twentieth century, and the possibilities it opens up for research in the new millenium.

1 Richard Overton, Monopolists as Frogs and Vermin (1641)???

2 Adam Smith, On Conspiracies, Monopolies, and Unproductive Labour (1776)??????????????

3 Thomas Paine, On Governments, Placemen, and Pensioners (1792)

4 William Godwin, Of Courts, Subjects, and Pensions (1793)????

5 Jeremy Bentham, On Mischiefs and the Sinister Interests (1817, 1824)???????????

7 William Leggett , The Lordlings of the Paper Dynasty (1834)?

8 James Mill, On Those Who Pillage and Those Who Are Pillaged (1835)

9 John Wade, The Aristoc

10 Adolphe Blanqui, The Class Which Does Not Kill or Pillage (1837)??????

11 Richard Cobden, England is a perfect Paradise for the Aristocracy (1845-49)???????????????

12 Fr?d?ric Bastiat, On the English Oligarchy and Legal Plunder (1845, 1847)?????

14 Charles Renouard, Robbers lCÝ