Manifestos: New Libertarian Manifesto by Konkin
https://archive.org/details/NewLibertarianManifesto_201703 New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III Publication date 1980 Topics Agorism Collection newsletters_inbox; newsletters; magazine_rack The basic form of new Libertarianism arose during my struggle with the Libertarian Party during its formation in 1973, and Counter-Economics was first put forward to the public at the Free Enterprise Forum in Los Angeles in February 1974. New Libertarianism has been propagated within and without the libertarian movement and its journals, most notably New Libertarian magazine, since then. More importantly, the activism prescribed herein (especially Counter-Economics) has been practiced by the author and his closest allies since 1975. Several "anarchovillages" of New Libertarians have formed and reformed. Just once, wouldn't you like to read a manifesto that's been practiced before it's preached? I wanted to. And I did it. Samuel Edward Konkin III October 1980 Preface to the Second Edition An agorist publication ought to be judged most severely in the free marketplace. Sure enough, the first edition of New Libertarian Manifesto has been sold out and a second edition, taken up by a fresh entrepreneur looking for profit with his ideology, is with you, the reader. The market's judgement, to my pleasant surprise, is that NLM is the most successful of my many publications. In the realm of ideas, two years is a fairly short time. Nevertheless, attacks on NLM have begun in Left-Center Libertarian publications and one such student network newsletter berated errant chapters for switching allegiance to "that flake, Konkin" only last month. Essays and articles on Counter-Economics and agorism appear in more and more non-Left (or non-agorist - yet) libertarian publications. A truly encouraging sign is the emergence of many Counter-Economic entrepreneurs in the Southern California area (and a few scattered around North America and even Europe) who embrace and distribute NLM. An agorist "industrial park" has been condensing quietly in Orange County between these two editions. This continuing gratification is not idly enjoyed. It has inspired the author to continue the dialogue in two issues of a theoretical journal based on NLM, the writing of Counter-Economics (see footnote 3, chapter III), and the planning of a theoretical magnum opus, as Das Capital was to the Communist Manifesto, undoubtedly to be titled Agorism. As for continuing to practice what I preach and expanding on the practice, I may add to the end of the First Preface... And I'm still doing it. Identifier NewLibertarianManifesto_201703 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4mm1jf5x
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