News Item: Toward a Vision of Agorist Justice.
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Posted by Wendy McElroy
Sunday 26 May 2019 - 19:10:05
My latest article has just appeared on Agorist Nexus: Toward a Vision of Agorist Justice. It discusses my old friend Samuel E. Konkin III (SEK3).
Excerpt: The general approach anarchists take toward state violence was captured by the late Samuel E. Konkin III (SEK3), the father of agorism and an old drinking buddy of mine. SEK3 epitomized the attitude of this approach by routinely answering his phone with the salutation, “Smash the State.” And, yet, his lifestyle did not include direct confrontations with authority; confrontation was the attitude, not the actions. His actions offered a blueprint on how to behave toward the state. Whenever possible, SEK3 avoided contact with it and replaced any valid functions that had been usurped by the state—such as banking—with free-market arrangements. The most effective way to smash the state, he understood, was to render it irrelevant and to establish private alternatives. SEK3’s lasting legacy to anarchist theory was an economic system called “agorism.” This peaceful economic revolution is achieved through counter-economics, which SEK3 defined as “the study or practice of all peaceful human action which is forbidden by the State.” Counter-economics is a black market version of Ludwig von Mises’s praxeology—the study of human action; it is the study and practice of human action to avoid the presence of the state. Smash the State in your attitudes by ignoring it in your life. In other words, don’t act to literally smash the state; bypass it instead.
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(Category: Wendy)
Posted by Wendy McElroy
Sunday 26 May 2019 - 19:10:05
My latest article has just appeared on Agorist Nexus: Toward a Vision of Agorist Justice. It discusses my old friend Samuel E. Konkin III (SEK3).
Excerpt: The general approach anarchists take toward state violence was captured by the late Samuel E. Konkin III (SEK3), the father of agorism and an old drinking buddy of mine. SEK3 epitomized the attitude of this approach by routinely answering his phone with the salutation, “Smash the State.” And, yet, his lifestyle did not include direct confrontations with authority; confrontation was the attitude, not the actions. His actions offered a blueprint on how to behave toward the state. Whenever possible, SEK3 avoided contact with it and replaced any valid functions that had been usurped by the state—such as banking—with free-market arrangements. The most effective way to smash the state, he understood, was to render it irrelevant and to establish private alternatives. SEK3’s lasting legacy to anarchist theory was an economic system called “agorism.” This peaceful economic revolution is achieved through counter-economics, which SEK3 defined as “the study or practice of all peaceful human action which is forbidden by the State.” Counter-economics is a black market version of Ludwig von Mises’s praxeology—the study of human action; it is the study and practice of human action to avoid the presence of the state. Smash the State in your attitudes by ignoring it in your life. In other words, don’t act to literally smash the state; bypass it instead.
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