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[1849] Gustave de Molinari, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, Elibron Classics, 2007
- Contents: Entretiens sur les Lois Économiques et Défense de la Proprieté.
- Comment: One of the most lucid minds in defense of freedom and rationality.
[see: Gustave de Molinari, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, Septième Soirée
Gustave de Molinari, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, Onzième Soirée]

[1970] Jerry Rubin, Do It. Scenarios of the Revolution, Simon and Schuster, New York
- Contents: Introduction by Eldridge Cleaver. Designed by Quentin Fiore.
- Comment: Higly irreverent towards everything (especially Amerika) and so quite stimulating.

[1973] Paul Avrich ed., The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, Thames & Hudson, London

[1997] Linda Polman, We Did Nothing. Why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in, Viking, London
Comment: A collection of passages about events and figures of the Russian Revolution seen from an anarchist perspective.- Contents: Preface. Prologue. 1. The UN in Somalia: Scuttled by Mutiny. 2. Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and Thirteen Other Disaster Zones: Tailback in the Security Council. 3 The UN in Haiti: Blue Helmets without Blue Helmets. 4. The UN in Rwanda: The End. Epilogue.
- Comment: The disaster that is the United Nations and the criminal states (all of them) that are behind it.

[2005] Rodney Stark, The Victory of Reason. How Christianity led to Freedom, Capitalism and Western Success, Random House, New York, 2006
- Contents: Introduction. Part I. Foundations. Chapter one: Blessings of Rational Theology. Chapter two: Medieval Progress: Technical, Cultural, and Religious. Chapter three: Tyranny and the "Rebirth" of Freedom. Part II. Fulfillment. Chapter four. Perfecting Italian Capitalism. Chapter five: Capitalism Moves North. Chapter six: "Catholic" Anticapitalism: Spanish and French Despotism. Chapter seven: Feudalism and Capitalism in the New World. Conclusion: Globalization and Modernity. Notes. Bibliography
- Comment: An interesting and refreshing hypothesis after so much anti-Catholicism and anti-religion by so many state-prone intellectuals.

[2006] William Easterly, The White Man's Burden, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
- Contents: Chapter one: Planners versus Searchers. Part I. Why Planners Cannot Bring Prosperity. Chapter two: The Legend of the Big Push. Chapter three: You Can't Plan a Market. Chapter four. Planners and Gangsters. Part II. Acting Out the Burden. Chapter five: The Rich Have Markets, the Poor Have Bureaucrats. Chapter six: Bailing Out the Poor. Chapter seven: The Healers: Triumph and Tragedy. Part III. The White Man's Army. Chapter eight: From Colonialism to Postmodern Imperialism. Chapter nine: Invading the Poor. Part IV. The Future. Chapter ten: Homegrown Development. Chapter eleven: The Future of Western Assistance.
- Comment: A devastating analysis of the obnoxious results of Western aid.

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