Agorism

Agorism is revolutionary market anarchism. In a market anarchist society, law and security would be provided by market actors instead of political institutions. Agorists recognize that ... can not develop through political reform. Instead, it will arise as a result of market processes ... Development of [the] demand [for market providers of security and law] will come from economic growth in the sector of the economy that explicitly shuns state involvement (and thus can not turn to the state in its role as monopoly provider ...).That sector ... is the counter-economy—black and grey markets.

Political libertarianism, at least for Konkin, was a contradiction in terms, libertarians being opposed to politics in principle. Agorism instead emphasizes the importance of building the "counter-economy," ... economic institutions and enterprises existing outside of the legal strictures of the dominant framework characterized by state intervention and coercion. Agorists regard this counter-economy as a form of nonviolent direct action, a method of simultaneously challenging and evading state power, ... building a free society based on the principles of unrestricted voluntary exchange.

[Konkin] found enough funding to open a small suite of offices in a downtown office building in Long Beach, California for his own libertarian think tank, the Agorist Institute. The name, "Agorist," was derived from the ancient Greek word agora, meaning open marketplace ... Most of these people [in the Counter-Economy], Sam argued "are acting in an agorist manner with little understanding of any theory." They "are induced by material gain to evade, avoid, or defy the State. Surely they are a hopeful potential?" ... "The path from here to agora now becomes blindingly obvious," Sam wrote.