Steve Schear wrote:

Even better, "The Road to Surfdom," F.A. Hayek, totally debunks the basis of a planned economy and how the loss of property ownership and economic freedom leads directly and inevitably to totalitarianism. ............................................................

Or my favorite of all time: "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises. It's a large book - it could keep a collectivist New Age philosopher busy for hours. But even just reading the first few chapters would be sufficient to provide some usefully deep ideas to explain fundamental things about economic truths, of the kind which many cpunks are already in agreement with. .. Blanc .. Blanc