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Ep. 1323 Agorism: Anti-Politics, Anti-State, Pro-Freedom Now

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Author and publisher Victor Koman joins me to discuss agorism, the anti-political, anti-state philosophy and strategy developed by Samuel E. Konkin III. Those chapters that exist of Konkin's would-be treatise, Counter-Economics, have just been released for people to read for the very first time. We discuss those chapters and the ideas found in them, and how what Konkin calls the "counter-economy" can challenge the state.

Show Notes for Ep. 1323

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1323.

0:03.4

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0:08.0

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0:14.2

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0:41.3

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.

0:42.7

Today we're talking about agorism.

0:44.9

Many of you folks already know what this is, but some of you newbies will not know.

0:49.7

And that's why we've got this episode.

0:51.7

But we're talking about this set of ideas and in particular about Sam Conkin, the man who, well, really came up with these ideas.

1:01.2

He was the one who presented them as a system and who's associated with them.

1:05.7

And it turns out that years after his death, we are finally seeing the release of at least a portion

1:13.3

of what he intended to be, in effect, his magnum opus, the book Counter-Economics, from the

1:19.5

back alleys to the stars. And I thought that was an opportune moment to talk about this subject

1:25.6

and this man. And we're talking about it with Victor

1:29.7

Komen, who is a three-time Prometheus Award-winning science fiction author, as well as a longtime

1:36.4

libertarian publisher who knew Sam Kanken very well and is himself an exponent of his ideas. So,

1:42.8

Victor, welcome. Thank you. Glad to be here. All right. So we're going to talk about Sam K exponent of his ideas. So, Victor, welcome. Thank you. Glad to be here.

1:45.3

All right. So we're going to talk about Sam Conkin and his ideas and this counter-economics book that we have portions of, but that was intended to be, in effect, a magnum opus.

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