Agorist
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. His 'New Libertarian Manifesto' outlined a vision of economic secession from the state.
What it believes
Don't vote, don't petition — trade: build the counter-economy in the state's blind spots, gray and black markets included, until taxation starves, enforcement overstretches, and the state dies of irrelevance rather than revolution.
The appeal
It is anarchism with a business model: every unlicensed taco stand, crypto trade, and jurisdictional dodge is praxis, and unlike its neighbors' utopias, the counter-economy verifiably exists and grows wherever states overreach.
Where it breaks
Black markets select for the violent as reliably as for the free — cartels are counter-economics too — and history's shadow economies corrupted their states rather than dissolving them. The blind spot shelters predators alongside pioneers.
Among its neighbours
The Minarchist above still believes in the courts this cell routes around. The Anarcho-Mutualist beside it builds openly what this cell builds covertly. The Geoanarchist to its market side worries the counter-economy still hasn't paid its land rent.
Figures — real and imagined — who share the Agorist base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Agorist.
The company you keep.
The social axis (progressive ↔ traditional) splits Agorist into nine named shades. Take the quiz to find out which one is yours.
- Radical Agorist
- Progressive Agorist
- Reformist Agorist
- Heterodox Agorist
- Agorist
- Rooted Agorist
- Traditional Agorist
- Reactionary Agorist
- Restorationist Agorist