agorism
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Etymology edit
From the Ancient Greek word ἀγορά (agora), referring to an open place for assembly and market + -ism.
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agorism (uncountable)
- (politics, economics) A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).
- 1994, Bob Black, Beneath the Underground, page 4:
- 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; […]
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philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
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