Albert Jay Nock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 or 1872 - August 19, 1945) was an influential American individualist anarchist libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. ..."
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Web Pages
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Articles
Albert Jay Nock, Forgotten Man of the Right, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, 22 Aug 2002
Albert Jay Nock - Hero of the Day, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
Hero of the Day - Albert Jay Nock (2), The Daily Objectivist
No U-Turns, by Jack Dennon, 29 May 2006
Related Topics: Constitution of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, Lysander Spooner
"... as Albert Jay Nock points out ... the 'peculiar task' of the delegates ... was to bring about a government in such form as to 'preserve the appearance of actual republicanism without the reality.' ... by providing for 'an exercise of political self-expression by the general electorate which should be so managed as to be, in all essential respects, futile.'"
Related Topics: Constitution of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, Lysander Spooner
"... as Albert Jay Nock points out ... the 'peculiar task' of the delegates ... was to bring about a government in such form as to 'preserve the appearance of actual republicanism without the reality.' ... by providing for 'an exercise of political self-expression by the general electorate which should be so managed as to be, in all essential respects, futile.'"
The Anatomy of the State, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1974
Related Topics: The State, U.S. Bill of Rights, Franz Oppenheimer, Property, War
Examines several attributes of the State, including how it maintains and grows itself and how it deals with other States
"Albert Jay Nock happily termed these contesting forces: 'social power' and 'State power.' Social power is man's power over nature, his cooperative transformation of nature's resources ... State power ... is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production ... While social power is over nature, State power is power over man."
Related Topics: The State, U.S. Bill of Rights, Franz Oppenheimer, Property, War
Examines several attributes of the State, including how it maintains and grows itself and how it deals with other States
"Albert Jay Nock happily termed these contesting forces: 'social power' and 'State power.' Social power is man's power over nature, his cooperative transformation of nature's resources ... State power ... is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production ... While social power is over nature, State power is power over man."
Writings
Isaiah's Job, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Mar 1997
Extracted from Free Speech and Plain Language, 1937.
Extracted from Free Speech and Plain Language, 1937.
The Criminality of the State, The American Mercury, 1939
Related Topic: The State
"... the State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal."
Related Topic: The State
"... the State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal."
Books Authored
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943
- ISBN 0819133094
: Hardcover, University Press of America, Reprint edition, 2002
- ISBN 0873190386
: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, 1994
Mr. Jefferson, 1926
Related Topic: Thomas Jefferson
Related Topic: Thomas Jefferson
- ISBN 0873190246
: Paperback, Hallberg Publishing, 1983
Our Enemy, the State, 1935
Related Topic: The State
Electronic text available at "Barefoot's World"
Related Topic: The State
Electronic text available at "Barefoot's World"
- ISBN 0786100877
: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
- ISBN 0405004311
: Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub, 1972
- ISBN 0930073118
: Hardcover, Fox & Wilkes, 1994
- ISBN 0873190238
: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, Reprint edition, 1983
- ISBN 0873190513
: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, Expanded edition, 2001
The Disadvantages of Being Educated & Other Essays, 1932
- ISBN 0873190416
: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, 1996