# Agorism **Agorism** is the libertarian strategy set out by Samuel Edward Konkin III in *New Libertarian Manifesto* (1980), holding that a stateless society arrives not through elections or revolution but through **counter-economics** — the deliberate expansion of black and grey markets until the taxed, regulated economy is hollowed out. Konkin treated existing illegal commerce not as a regrettable side effect of prohibition but as the actual growth medium of a free society, and rejected participation in the [[Libertarian Party]] as a distraction. The doctrine sits within the broader [[Anarcho-Capitalism]] family and draws its economics from the [[Austrian School]] tradition associated with the [[Mises Institute]], but it is distinguished by its emphasis on method. Its most consequential modern application was **Silk Road**: [[Ross Ulbricht]] described the market in explicitly counter-economic terms, and the union of agorist strategy with [[Crypto-Anarchism]]'s tooling is what the site was built to demonstrate. > [!note] Stub > Spine stub. Expand: Konkin's biography and the New Libertarian Alliance, the Rothbard dispute, the four-phase counter-economic theory, and agorism's revival in crypto circles after 2011.