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Agorist Class Theory Now in Audio!

by Agent j.-nick-puglia on June 4, 2009 in Uncategorized | Comments { 0 }

Mike Gogulski, of NoState.com, has gone out and done it again. Following up on his recent release of Samuel E Konkin III’s (SEK3′s) New Libertarian Manifesto in audiobook form he has now released Wally Conger’s Agorist Class Theory in audiobook form.

From the introduction…

Ten years later, Konkin began work on a book to distinguish Agorist Class Theory from Marxist Class Theory called Agorism Contra Marxism. Only an introduction and first chapter were ever published (in Strategy of the New Libertarian Alliance #2), and the book — like most other SEK3 projects — was left unfinished at the time of his death in 2004.
This brief volume represents my attempt to summarize (and somewhat update) that material.
— Wally Conger

The New Libertarian Manifesto and Agorist Class Theory are on every Agorist’s bookshelf, and now they can reside in every Agorist’s .mp3 player. These two works are considered to be foundational documents in Agorism, the revolutionary market anarchism developed by Konkin III.

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New Libertarian Manifesto in Audio

by Agent j.-nick-puglia on May 29, 2009 in Uncategorized | Comments { 0 }

Mike Gogulski over at NoState.com has taken the initiative to do something many of us have at least considered doing, he has recorded an audio version of Samuel E. Konkin III’s New Libertarian Manifesto.

The New Libertarian Manifesto is, of course, the founding document of Agorism, which I am a proponent of.

Agorism is revolutionary market anarchism. In a market anarchist society, law and security will be provided by market institutions, not political institutions. Agorists recognize, therefore, that those institutions can not develop through political reform. Instead, they will come about as a result of market processes. As government is banditry, revolution culminates in the suppression of government by market providers of security and law. Market demand for such service providers is what will lead to their emergence. Development of that demand will come from economic growth in the sector of the economy that explicitly shuns state involvement (and therefore can not turn to the state in its role as monopoly provider of security and law). That sector of the economy is the counter-economy – black and grey markets.

– Brad Spangler, Agorist Revolution in a Nutshell

Mike Gogulski’s introduction to the audio version…

Good morning, New Libertarian. Good morning, agorist.

The voice you will hear for the next 85 minutes or so belongs to me, Mike Gogulski.

I am a stateless ex-American. I renounced my American citizenship in 2008 and I have been a voluntary exile since 2004, presently living in Bratislava, Slovakia. As of this recording in May 2009, I maintain a website at www.nostate.com, which you are invited to visit.

The words you will hear belong to all of humanity, but they were written by Samuel Edward Konkin III, arguably the initiator of the agorist theory. The book, New Libertarian Manifesto, was first published in 1980, and then updated in 1983.

After two, brief prefaces, the book consists of five chapters:

Statism: Our Condition
Agorism: Our Goal
Counter-Economics: Our Means
Revolution: Our Strategy
Action! Our Tactics

I have attempted to read the text of New Libertarian Manifesto as I have it in hand. Any deviations from the written text – which you can find online at the website agorism.info – are my own.

After listening, take action.

Agora! Anarchy! Action!