Cooperatives, startup societies, exitarians, platform cooperatives, blockchains and decentralized networks. "Beloved children have many names" It is becoming obvious that the remaining ideas of traditional "agorism" have started to have a life of their own. A life that its founder - Samuel Edward Konkin III - may not have entirely agreed with, but likely would've still been very pleased to see take hold and influence the world in such radical ways as it has done.
That's why I'm happy to see Tom Woods, economist, libertarian content creator and activist, promote these ideas on his show in latest episode 945. The episode is embeded below for your listening pleasure.
"Cooperative Agorism", as opposed to something like Social Democracy, will be the new way forward for libertarians of left, center and right alike.
Not everyone involved is even clearly political and as long as we can find common ground along the way they don't need to be; Cooperative Agorism is primarily a strategy and the exact political endgoal may vary.
For me as an Anarcho-Capitalist, its purpose is of course clear.
I want a society that is entirely free and prosperous for us all in the absence of force from any state party. Steem and Bitshares are ways for us to get there, without necessarily winning every democratic election or having to bribe the right politicians along the way.
The world is changing, mark my words. Mark this date. Change won't come easy; each and everyone of us will have to do our part. There will be trials and tribulations. But it will never be the same.
Thank you Tom Woods for spreading the word about these wonderful new ideas through your show! Thank you Steemians for bringing the message of Steem to the masses! Together we are making the world a better place!
Excellent Article.
Good to have people like this onboard.
"Blockchain" revolution ironically is the very thing that is rapidly disintegrating the Debt Slavery Infrastructure which has bound us for quite sometime. Not without risk of course, but there are good people charting the way. And confidence in decentralization is at an all time high.
Can you feel the shift coming?
Great Post.
Upvoted with my measley minnow powers, and Re-Steemed for what it's worth.
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Thank you!
Yes I can feel it! Big change is already here, but much much more is on its way!
I and slowly growing number of Steemians want to build a strong, revolutionary cooperative agorist community to help build a better world. I would be very happy to have your hand in this effort!
Together we can make a real dent in those shackles!
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Absolutely. Glad to help in anyway I can. Keep me posted on any new ventures, bots, guilds, etc. that you may have going on.
Thanks @the-ego-is-you!
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and here we are starting one ourselves... and to hell with 'legal frameworks'. We as a group claim no rights in the jurisdiction of the governments, everything we publish is CC attribution or similar, and we are picking up some very useful talent along the way, yesterday we became possibly a group of 4 people now, with a mathematician specialising in game theory.
If it manages to pick up enough of a variety of different people, we could liberate this platform from its corporate registration and take it in the direction the people want.
Tom woods is awesome. If you have never seen his interview with a Statist, I mean zombie, here it is:
http://tomwoods.com/interview-with-a-zombie/
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YES! What's most amazing about all of this is that we're not merely migrating into a black market, but we're building the thing from scratch!
haha I love the zombie interview, thanks for reminding me!
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Yeah, I'm totally on for taking the Black out of the black market (except when it involves nice shiny black things), it's an early objective for the Steem Co-Op - peer to peer marketplace.
That reminds me. Check this out from a screenie of the android version of eSteem:
Remember me talking about escrow? I believe actually it's implemented on the Steem blockchain now as a multisig transaction. @good-karma also clearly knows where it's at for advancing this platform, he's working on a marketplace too. Maybe I need to talk to him.
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That's good news! I know Feruz is working very hard and he seems to be making great progress all the time. It's very inspiring to see! See if you can get a hold on him.
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Again, Cooperative Agorism is a great initiative! I hope to get involved some more soon!
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It would help to have the link to the podcast on his website. Or at least the show number. Thanks
Tom Woods always has good infos.
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Thanks. Yeah I was trying to make the post less infomercial like. I'm not merely trying to shill for Tom after all. =)
The link to the current episode should be embeded, but here's the youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsgWR55UyAiFarZYl1u1l9Q
And on this adress (mentioned in the podcast) you can get mentioned links and other recources
http://tomwoods.com/ep-945-dont-complain-create-the-rise-of-startup-societies/
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As a member of the Finnish social democratic party, I am happy to see that cooperatives can harness support across the spectrum from communists to libertarians.
In my country the cooperative movement was built on the other hand by the labour movement as the "third branch" along with trade unions and the social democratic party, and on the other hand, by the center-right agrarian party.
In Italy the cooperative economy there has been built by liberal reformers, communists and the Catholic church. I cant think of any economic idea so profound that would be supported by so many from so opposite political leanings.
What I think is especially important is to create platform cooperatives like Resonate, a cooperative alternative to Spotify, that allow anyone from anywhere to join in a matter of few clicks. One of the problems with cooperative model has been that it has not been able to create truly international cooperatives. That is, until Resonate!
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Being a Swede, I have some interest myself in these historical tendencies. (We've had similar and overlapping movements, for obvious reasons) These are all possible applications that you mention of course and many probably quite good at that, but it should be said again that Cooperative Agorism is not limited to Konkins traditional Agorism or to Co-Ops. Such confusions could happen easily and severely hold back the movement.
It's good to see a social democrat comment positively on a "capitalists" blog. I would much more so prefer we got along and created those things we can all agree that we would benefit from, rather than simply stay dug down in our trenches... once in while firing over at the other side.
Center libertarians (most often simply called "right wing" libertarians) sure could learn a lot from studying the successes of past socialist movements in general I think. As we have always been in oposition to most states and often the concept of the state as such, we have had an unfortunate tendency to get reactionary (often right leaning) and reject anything it got involved in, as well as any strategy involving any kind of support network as being "collectivist" simply because it was championed either by the left or the right.
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Have you considered taking part in elections in Swedish cooperatives or building societies?
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I will be focused on other areas for now, but I'm absolutely open to working within parties and participating in parlamentary politics. The actual available parties that would fit me well are scarce of course, but I see many possible alliances.
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Very good! @the-ego-is-you! a great way to make a difference.... unless you may think a $100 bribe into the current mess would make a dent!
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Yes, there are after all many different forms of activism. So why limit ourselves to existing mainstream political structures? We can make our own way instead! =)
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I was looking for tags in order to release my proposal and I found this article. Thank you so much for sharing. I didn't realize how active this idea is. Start-up society. Goes well with our open-source-society :) Great share, lets collaborate. I would love to get some feedback from you on this proposal if you have a moment.
https://steemit.com/libertarian/@rieki/introducing-exclusively-on-steem-our-neighbourgood-on-intentionally-creating-societies-designed-for-the-21st-century-and-beyond
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Nice post, but there's a lot in there to read and I might have to get back to it.
I would recommend using the new tag cooperative-agorism and visiting the cooperative-agorism channel on steemit.chat as well. If you've got any particular question, want to link posts or just want to chat, you're welcome there. =)
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Perfect! I'll head on over!! Thank you. :) I understand it's a pretty long proposal, it's going to take a lot more time to make it smaller ;)
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Agorism is a philosophy whose time has come!
I was just wondering - having recently read two of Konkin's books (New Libertarian Manifesto and An Agorist Primer) - when you say that Konkin "may not have entirely agreed with" what is happening today, do you have something specific in mind?
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Several things. In short, what we see today is mostly not consistent Agorism, but a mix of Konkins ideas and others that are being used more often as a strategy than a complete ideology. That's what the new term "cooperative-agorism" (kooperativagorism) is for. For me, an anarcho-capitalist, the consistent endgoal of said ethical strategy is clearly anarcho-capitalist.
Future posts will mentions specific disagreements that a Cooperative Agorist may have with Konkins Agorism. But for example Konkins ideology had a preference specifically for black markets and a different time schedule for when he thought certain parts of the revolution should take place.
Thank you for commenting! These are exciting times indeed =)
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Interesting! I have followed you and look forward to hearing more about that in the future.
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tom woods is a good dude! Thanks for sharing. Good luck on the tag. I do intend to help, your my people haha!! but Ive been slacking
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Yeah sure! Tom is doing great work. Hey and steeming can be tiring, we need a break too =) The tag is just a vehicle for getting info out after all. But I will keep resteeming posts for a while.
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