Recently one of the OG Members in the Discord group posted a link to an article titled “6 Reasons Agorism

is a Failed Strategy” and recommended that a rebuttal episode may be interesting. Shout out to Xed101. I After

reading the article I agreed with Xed101. So, here it is.

Here is a link to the article.  morelibertynow.com

As titled the article list 6 reasons for the failure and to avoid any kind of copyright problems I won't

publish the article here, but I will list the reasons given.

1 You're Alone

2 High Risk

3 Real World Failure

4 Ineffective

5 Self-limiting

6 Short-sighted

The author does make some valid points when it comes to the hurdles of agorism and as a self

proclaimed agorist for about 5 years he would certainly be aware of the hurdles but in my opinion

these hurdles don't mark the strategy as failed.

I don't know if the author intended to use the word failed in the past tense intentionally or not, but it

insinuates a sort of finality to the unsuccessful application of agorism.

After the second paragraph, the author writes” Agorism is a failed strategy. I encourage people not to

pursue it at this time.” This implies that there may be a good time to pursue agorism in the future, but

when would that be? I assume he means when these 6 problems have been solved, but none of the

problems can be solved without the number of agorists increasing to substantial numbers. Maybe the

author means to suggest that you should pursue agorism after other agorists have, through outreach,

proselytizing, risk absorption and institution building increased the number of agorists to such levels

that these 6 hurdles aren't that risky.

This risk avoidance strategy will be employed by most people because most people are not very risk-tolerant when it comes to authority. However, this is accounted for in Konkin's writings. Konkin was

clear in his predictions that agorism would take a long time.

In this episode, we are going to discuss why we believe none of these 6 reasons are good enough

reasons to either say agorism is a failed strategy or that people should not pursue it.

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