Franz Oppenheimer

Articles

Barter in Prehistoric Times

02/15/2012 Mises Daily Franz Oppenheimer

The history of primitive peoples shows that the desire to trade and barter is a universal human characteristic.

The Six Stages of the Creation of the State

05/24/2021 Mises Daily Franz Oppenheimer

Franz Oppenheimer explains in detail the manner in which the state seizes control of society, one stage at a time.

The Genesis of the State

10/25/2010 Mises Daily Franz Oppenheimer

There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one's own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others.

Publications

The State

06/01/1908 Franz Oppenheimer

The author sought to overthrow centuries of fallacious thinking on the subject of the state’s origin, nature, and purpose, put its it place a view of the state that constitutes a foundational attack on the structure of modern society. He utterly

The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically

11/08/1926 Franz Oppenheimer

This is the 1908 book that started it all in the 20th century, the book that kicked off a century of anti-state, pro-property writing. This was the prototype for Nock’s writing, for Chodorov’s work, and even the theoretical edifice that later became

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