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The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each of the following chapters: 1. The General Law 2. Life Is a Gift from God 3. What Is Law? 4. A Just and Enduring Government 5. The Complete Perversion of the Law 6. A Fatal Tendency of Mankind 7. Property and Plunder 8. Victims of Lawful Plunder 9. The Results of Legal Plunder 10. The Fate of Non-Conformists 11. Who Shall Judge? 12. The Reason Why Voting Is Restricted 13. The Answer Is to Restrict the Law 14. The Fatal Idea of Legal Plunder 15. Perverted Law Causes Conflict 16. Slavery and Tariffs Are Plunder 17. Two Kinds of Plunder 18. The Law Defends Plunder 19. How to Identify Legal Plunder 20. Legal Plunder Has Many Names 21. Socialism Is Legal Plunder 22. The Choice Before Us 23. The Proper Function of the Law 24. The Seductive Lure of Socialism 25. Enforced Fraternity Destroys Liberty 26. Plunder Violates Ownership 27. Three Systems of Plunder 28. Law Is Force 29. Law Is a Negative Concept 30. The Political Approach 31. The Law and Charity 32. The Law and Education 33. The Law and Morals 34. A Confusion of Terms 35. The Influence of Socialist Writers 36. The Socialists Wish to Play God 37. The Socialists Despise Mankind 38. A Defense of Compulsory Labor 39. A Defense of Paternal Government 40. The Idea of Passive Mankind 31 41. Socialists Ignore Reason and Facts 42. Socialists Want to Regiment People 43. A Famous Name and an Evil Idea 44. A Frightful Idea 45. The Leader of the Democrats 46. Socialists Want Forced Conformity 47. Legislators Desire to Mold Mankind 48. Legislators Told How to Manage Men 49. A Temporary Dictatorship 50. Socialists Want Equality of Wealth 51. The Error of the Socialist Writers 52. What Is Liberty? 53. Philanthropic Tyranny 54. The Socialists Want Dictatorship 55. Dictatorial Arrogance 56. The Indirect Approach to Despotism 57. Napoleon Wanted Passive Mankind 58. The Vicious Circle of Socialism 59. The Doctrine of the Democrats 60. The Socialist Concept of Liberty 61. Socialists Fear All Liberties 62. The Superman Idea 63. The Socialists Reject Free Choice 64. The Cause of French Revolutions 65. The Enormous Power of Government 66. Politics and Economics 67. Proper Legislative Functions 68. Law and Charity Are Not the Same 69. The High Road to Communism 70. The Basis for Stable Government 71. Justice Means Equal Rights 72. The Path to Dignity and Progress 73. Proof of an Idea 74. The Desire to Rule Over Others 75. Let Us Now Try Liberty
Frederic Bastiat was a French political economist, statesman, classical liberal theorist, and the French Assembly. He coined the important economic concept of opportunity cost. His ideas have become the foundation for libertarian and the Austrian schools of thought.
Most of Bastiat’s political writings were done during the years just before and immediately after the Revolution of February 1848 when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Bastiat explained each socialist fallacy as it appeared and how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism that it must fail.
The same situation exists in China today as in the France of 1848 after China became the second power house by GDP. The China Model and the China Specialized Socialism and planed economy that were then adopted in France are now sweeping China with a peak confidence.
The Law is here again because the explanations and arguments by Bastiat are still valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing by Chinese Communist Party. A planned economic system without law will fail.
The Law is already read more than a hundred years and it will still be read for another century due to its truths and the foreseeable failure of China Model if China Communist Party does not reform the existing political system to build a society based on