Ideologies / Agorist / Karl Hess
§ The minds · 1923–1994 · United States · Writer & activist
Karl Hess
Community technology
From speechwriter to anarchist tinkerer.
Economic+5
SocialistMarket
Governance−90
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+50
TraditionalProgressive
The Goldwater speechwriter who became a left-libertarian anarchist, practising what he preached through neighbourhood self-reliance, barter and tax resistance.
social
Progressive communitarian individualist.
economic
Local self-reliant production and barter outside the system.
governance
Left-libertarian anti-statism; refused to pay federal tax.
Notable for
- 'Dear America'
- Neighbourhood self-reliance projects
- Tax resistance
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