Oppenheimer’s Classic: The State

Someone in a comment box the other day mentioned that Mises.org had not yet posted Franz Oppenheimer’s The State. That is fixed. It’s interesting how easy it is to overlook sometimes the most obvious additions. Of course this is the great book that inspired Albert Jay Nock, who inspired Frank Chodorov, who inspired Rothbard, who inspired you. So this is your heritage and the root (in modern times). It is a thrilling book. I would love to see someone compare the four chief works in this tradition: FO, AJN, FC, and MNR. Was there any lost knowledge along the way? Was there improvement and in what way? Good material for an extended paper.

There are many other new works in literature but I wanted to note this one in particular.

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