agorism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (open place for assembly and market)”) + -ism.[1]

Coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III in his 1980 New Libertarian Manifesto.[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæ.ɡəˌɹɪzm̩/

Noun

agorism (uncountable)

  1. (politics, economics) A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).
    • 1994, Bob Black, Beneath the Underground, page 4:
      Some of them are, or were, libertarians, but of a kind to make the respectably bourgeois Libertarian Party cringe - people like Samuel Edward Konkin III, whose revolutionary “agorism” or pure free-market anarchism is supposed to abolish and liberate the working class; […]

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References

  1. ^ Samuel Edward Konkin III (2008) “Chapter Two: Applied Economics”, in An Agorist Primer, page 24
  2. ^ “Black-​Market Activism: Agorism and Samuel Edward Konkin III”, in libertarianism.org, 27 November 2018 [28 April 2015]
  3. ^ Vest, J. Martin (2021) “II.8.V. Left-Wing Market Anarchism”, in Gary Chartier, Chad Van Schoelandt, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought, page 120

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