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Economic: Centrist
Governance: Anarchic
Coords: X+0 · Y-4
Economic: Centrist
Governance: Anarchic
Coords: X+0 · Y-4
Descriptor
Agorist
“Counter-economics to starve the state.”
Exemplar ↓
§ 01
The Idea
What Agorist actually means.
Agorism promotes counter-economics—voluntary, underground trade—to undermine state authority and build a free-market society outside legal frameworks.
Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3) developed Agorism as a strategy for achieving a stateless economy through counter-economics. He encouraged black and grey market activities to bypass government control, believing decentralized trade networks could replace state-run systems.
§ 02 · Tenets
Core commitments.
01
Build black/grey-market alternatives to the state.
02
Counter-economics as praxis.
03
Reject electoral politics entirely.
04
Voluntary exchange as moral default.
05
Strategic withdrawal of consent and tax base.
§ 03 · Position
Where it sits on the grid.
Economic axis — X+0
CENTRIST
Full collectivisationUnfettered markets
Governance axis — Y-4
ANARCHIC
Total controlNo state at all
§ 04 · Reading List
Canon & critics.
§ Canon
- New Libertarian ManifestoSamuel Edward Konkin III1980 · Pamphlet
- An Agorist PrimerSamuel Edward Konkin III2009 · ~150 pp
§ Critics
- The Ethics of LibertyMurray Rothbard1982 · ~310 pp
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