/lit/ - Literature

What are some good left texts that are critical of Anarchism and show it for the liberalism it really is? I've already read Engel's On Authority.

Proudhon is fairly interesting, in part because he's probably the first explicitly anarchist thinker, but also because his ideas evolved over his lifetime. In the end, he abandoned anarchism in favor of federalism on essentially pragmatic grounds. Principles of Federation goes into this. What is Property? is worth reading as well, if only to better understand the axiomatic role property plays in various theories of political economy.

Also, left libertarianism is not logically inconsistent. Anyone who's lived communally (e.g. live-in gf or bf) can attest to this. The problem arises when anarchists advocate too fervently for their chosen economic system and start talking about living "under anarcho-communism" or "under anarcho-capitalism". Truth is, libertarianism is about empowering the community, and it's not on political philosophers to decide, but the *actual people living in that community* In Proudhon's estimation, federalism is a pragmatic compromise between libertarian and collectivist impulses. I'm inclined to agree and believe it's what made the US successful.