agorism

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/ˈæ.ɡəˌɹɪzm̩/

noun

A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).

OriginAncient Greek ἀγορά →
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Meanings

nounagorism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableeconomicsA revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).

    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; […]

    1994, Bob Black, Beneath the Underground, page 4

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἀγορά“agora (open place for assembly and market)”
  2. Englishagorism

From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (open place for assembly and market)”) + -ism. Coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III in his 1980 New Libertarian Manifesto.

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Translations

Catalan agorisme
  • agorismephilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Czech agorismus
  • agorismusphilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Danish agorisme
  • agorismephilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Dutch agorisme
  • agorismephilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Esperanto agorismo
  • agorismophilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Finnish agorismi
  • agorismiphilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
French agorisme
  • agorismephilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Italian agorismo
  • agorismophilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Norwegian agorisme
  • agorismephilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Polish agoryzm
  • agoryzmphilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Portuguese agorismo
  • agorismophilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Russian агоризм
  • агоризм (agorizm)philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Slovak agorizmus
  • agorizmusphilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Spanish agorismo
  • agorismophilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Swedish agorism
  • agorismphilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics
Turkish agorizm
  • agorizmphilosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics

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