Agorism
/ˈæ.ɡəˌɹɪzm̩/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market). uncountable
"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; […]"
Example
More examples"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; […]"
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (open place for assembly and market)”) + -ism. Coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III in his 1980 New Libertarian Manifesto.