Status Updates From An Agorist Primer

The False Dichotomy - State mystics encourage illogic, irrationality, mysticism. State clerics separated the moral from the practical. Kant, Hegel.
Court Economists changed economics to suit the rulers.

The State in the Mind - The state cannot even stop an enterprising minority. The State has to be rejected in the mind. Agorist psychology.
Once you start, you will naturally add to your ranks.

Applied Agorism - How Statism would turn into Agorism

More people reject state mystics. More people turn to and structures grow in counter-economy. Underground eventually breaks into "overground", they cannot be effectively crushed.
One condensation becomes large enough to compete with State. Others rally to it. State taxation ability collapses as people abandon fiat money. State loses monopoly on force.

List of State wars, their reasons and pretexts.

Protection companies would form syndicates to defend from an invader. Desirable society -> people would form militias. See: Makhno

States are reluctant to invade places that give easy access to cheap goods. See: Hong-Kong.

Others states are bigger threats to a state.

A country big enough will survive foreign interference. See: Revolutionary France and Russia

States were born of roving gangs, their evolution through kings, institutionalized theft, murder and rape.

Economic vs. political means, incompatibility of statist means to non-statist ends.

Agorism - The Four Axioms of Agorism. Goal of the Agora, how Justice and Defense would work. What happens to a rogue protection company. National defense, what happens if a country invades?

Libertarian Party split 1973, New Libertarian Alliance 1980

Libertarian "Party Line" contrary to the nature of libertarianism.
This lead to agorism.

William Godwin, Max Stirner, Josiah Warren, his follower Lysander Spooner, his follower Benjamin Tucker influenced by Stirner.
Liberty magazine.
George Bernard Shaw.

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action 1949
H.L. Mencken and Albert J. Nock - his student Frank Chodorov reached Mises' Student Murray Rothbard, started modern libertarian movement.
Rothbard entered and expelled from many groups. Prosperity of lbrty mvmt.

Counter-Economizing - 1974 federal speed limit, how truckers worked together to resist, made conservative truckers work together with lawbreakers against the cops.
Prohibition, the draft similar.

Libertarianism - Pluralistic, says only what you may or may not do. Affinity to black market.

Applied Lbrt. - History of Liberty Movement, Quakers, The Constitution, Adam Smith, Whiskey rebellion

Laetrile, the drug trade on industrial scales. Prostitution. Contraceptives and midwives. Bible and Pornography smuggling.

Especially: Justice and Information. Importance of The Internet explosion - it eliminates a lot of the State's threat of control.
Importance of encryption in this. "Licking" the information problem.

Applied Counter-Economics - Calculating the risk/reward.

Counter-Economy: All non-coercive human action committed in defiance of the State.

Counter-Economy is huge - tax dodging 20-40 million ppl in US.
Italy: Civil service moonlights in private jobs.
Communism collapsed due to counter-economy: History of nalevo "left hand" economy. Black market is well known. Smuggling - even done unintentionally. Hong Kong, Saigon. Myanmar black market. Afghani heroin farmers.

Cartels and conspiracies are incentivized to be broken, need the State to uphold them.
Definition of capitalism as a pejorative by free marketeer Thomas Hodgskin even before Marx. Not a free market.

Labor, capital, entrepeneurship. Without enterprise, the economy would stagnate.
Regulation is coercion. Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It's impossible to obey all reguilations.
Inflation = increase of money supply

Definitions of Agorism, importance of consistency.

Difference between Economics and economics. Tax-funded institutional control of the sciences, history of this.

Values are what remove felt unease. Explanation of marginal utility.
Free = absence of coercion. Repeated coercion destroys value by definition. Definition of pure/perfect competition.
Adam Smith definition of monopoly, this was subverted.