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The agorist/statist spectrum in business, per SEK3

Thursday, 31 December 2009 by Mike Gogulski
philosophy | 6 Comments »

Let's draw a line and make a spectrum. On the Far Left is pure agorist; on the Far Right is pure statism (I'll leave it to the theologians to discuss as to whether statism is so Evil that it cannot ...

An Agorist Primer by Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3) – free PDF ebook!

Sunday, 26 July 2009 by Mike Gogulski
activism, philosophy | 6 Comments »

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Heroin dealers for liberty?

Saturday, 6 June 2009 by Mike Gogulski
philosophy | 6 Comments »

No, not really. Patri Friedman puts forth a quibble with agorist theory which is worth addressing in Indirectly Improving Institutions: Agorism and Civil Society. Let us consider one of the largest black markets in the world, the market for illegal drugs, which ...

Alongside Night enters BitTorrent age, goes viral

Saturday, 30 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
activism, art | 6 Comments »

J. Neil Schulman's classic 1979 novel of agorist revolution through counter-economics, Alongside Night, is going viral. Neil posted today on the Facebook group he recently organized to help support a campaign to raise funds to transform Alongside Night into new media, ...

Post-agorism? — A dialogue

Sunday, 10 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 2 Comments »

Reaction and discussion on Black Bloke's Facebook posting of an antiwar.com article, "Jon Stewart: Wimp, Wuss, Moral Coward by Justin Raimondo" leads to Anna O Morgenstern saying: Anna: Killing a mafia boss's family to get him to surrender is still murder. Mike: Assuming their ...

A declaration of separation

Wednesday, 8 April 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 27 Comments »

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Power: problem, not solution

Wednesday, 18 February 2009 by Mike Gogulski
mind control, philosophy | 3 Comments »

Via Bob Kaercher: [E]ven if agorism never achieves the ends, it is an effective way to live a defiant life. If this is "order", how bad can "chaos" be? Seriously... Just because it's "anarchy" doesn't mean people will start smashing guitars and snorting ...

The State in the Mind

Friday, 6 February 2009 by Mike Gogulski
mind control, philosophy | 4 Comments »

The State has guns and men to use them. [...][H]owever, it not only can fail to coerce a rebellious majority, it cannot even stop an enterprising minority of black marketeers and other Counter-Economists. The State must be defeated in each ...

The overlooked counter-economic component

Wednesday, 14 January 2009 by Mike Gogulski
activism, economics | 12 Comments »

From page 54 of the newly-minted ALLiance: a journal of theory and strategy, in Samuel Edward Konkin III's "The Last, Whole Introduction to Agorism", 1995: [caption id="attachment_1455" align="alignleft" width="443" caption="An image of a portion of a screenshot of the article in ...