Comments on: Agorism and Scamming State Programs http://blog.christopherburg.com/2012/10/26/agorism-and-scamming-state-programs/ Advocating self-defense online and offline. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matt Tanous http://blog.christopherburg.com/2012/10/26/agorism-and-scamming-state-programs/#comment-76132 Matt Tanous Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:53:30 +0000 http://christopherburg.com/?p=14147#comment-76132 I don’t think agorism can succeed without educating a majority of the people. In fact, it cannot succeed in any environment that political action cannot succeed. Without a majority, politicians that actually want to shrink and eliminate the state cannot get elected. Without a majority, agorists can be put in jail and oppressed with public approval. Without a majority, the general operations of the state will not be resisted by enough to make a difference.

With a majority, neither agorism nor political action is necessary. Merely passively ignoring the state, as opposed to going around the state through active counter-economics, is all that is needed. Agorism, then, is only useful as an individual evasion of state action. Political action, then, is only useful as an educational tool (like the Ron Paul campaigns).

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