Agorism was never meant to play the game of revolutions. Revolutions belong to the State. Violence, confrontation, taking power, fighting for control. That is their world. Even Konkin used the word revolution, but honestly I think that was a mistake. The word carries too much Marxist weight. It brings the whole idea of struggle and class conflict and historical drama that we do not need. If we want to be free, we need to stop using the vocabulary of the people who build cages.
And this is exactly why I reject Konkin’s class theory. Once you start dividing human beings into groups, you already stepped inside collectivism. Agorism is supposed to be individualist. Every person is different, every life is shaped by different choices and different experiences. Putting people into categories means you treat them as part of a group before treating them as individuals. That is the opposite of what the agora stands for. It is the same mistake Marxists make. New labels, same logic.
Agorism is the opposite of all that. The agora grows because free people act. Not because classes clash. Not because a revolution explodes. The black and grey markets expand naturally because they make more sense than the State. They work better. They are more human. When people stop asking permission, the State becomes irrelevant. It loses power quietly. No drama. No war. Just evolution.
And unlike every political movement on earth, agorism does not evangelize. We do not preach. We do not beg society to wake up. We do not build “mass movements” or try to convert the population. That comes from Marxist thinking too. The belief that freedom only exists when millions rise at the same time. No. Freedom already exists for the individual who steps into the counter economy. You are free the moment you stop waiting for the State to validate your choices.
When you think like that, everything becomes clear.
Evangelizing means thinking like a political party.
Waiting for a majority means thinking like a democrat.
Classifying people means thinking like a collectivist.
Seeking approval means thinking like a statist.
Agorism rejects all of it. We stand outside left, right and centre. We stand outside political rhetoric. We stand outside class theory. We stand outside the whole mindset of revolution and ideology. The agora is not a project. It is not a movement. It is a way of living. It grows when individuals act for themselves.
We do not overthrow the State. We simply leave it behind.
We do not preach liberty. We live it now.
We do not divide people into classes. We recognize individuals.
We do not wait for society to change. We change our own lives.
And when individuals do that long enough, the truth becomes obvious.
The State does not die in a revolution.
It dies when people stop needing it.
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