Агорическая азбука

An Agorist Primer

This book is dedicated to Teny Rule Fisher, Thelma Rule, and John Fragnito, without whom this book would not have happened. Most of all, though, this book is dedicated to my son, Samuel Edward Konkin IV, to whom I offer this blueprint for liberty as his legacy.

<h2>Preface</h2>

Ideas evolve and grow. At some point, an idea connects with so many other concepts that it becomes central to a way of thinking — an ideology.

At some state of an ideology’s life, between its birth and death, it reaches a level of maturity such that someone is motivated to divert his efforts from expanding it outward and upward and begins to look downward. That is, the theoretician pauses to pass on the knowledge to those <i>not</i> specializing in theoretical development. Perhaps the theoretician is reminded for whom he developed the ideology in the first place.

Agorism is a way of thinking about the world around you, a method of understanding <i>why</i> things work the way they do, how they do, and how they can be dealt with — how <i>you</i> can deal with them.

Agorism was meant to improve the lot of everyone, not a chosen elite or unwashed underclass. Hence an introductory work that presents ideas without going through the long intellectual history and conflict of competing ideas that produced them. As the creator of agorism, it is most incumbent on me first to attempt to reduce it to basic intelligibility. I hope my efforts find some small reward.

— <i>Samuel Edward Konkin III</i>

<h2>Publisher’s Note</h2>

Samuel Edward Konkin III wrote <i>An Agorist Primer</i> in 1986. A small number of Xerox copies were circulated to investors in the hope that they would finance the publication of a high-quality, hardcover edition. Though some money was raised, it proved insufficient to produce the book. Even though the photocopies bore text reading “First Edition”, it was meant to refer to the proposed hardback edition. This, then — the book you hold in your hands — is the true first edition as SEK3 intended it.