Samuel Edward Konkin III

Counter-economics

Agorism: trade your way out of the state.

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The founder of agorism, who argued the path to a stateless society runs not through politics but 'counter-economics' — voluntary trade conducted outside state control until the state withers.

social

Counter-cultural individualist.

economic

Black and grey markets as the engine of a stateless free economy.

governance

Reject electoral politics entirely; starve the state of compliance.

Notable for

Founded agorism
'New Libertarian Manifesto'
Theory of counter-economics

agorismcounter-economicsanti-political

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