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Close, it's the Voluntaryist logo. It's an older "individualist anarchist" symbol pre dating Agorism by more than a century.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism

 

Voluntaryism is a philosophy that all human interactions should be voluntary. States can force involuntary interactions like taxes on their subjects, or they can forcibly stop voluntary actions like someone buying weed, or pussy. This is why Voluntaryism falls under anarchy, because it's not compatible with government's involuntary nature. Voluntaryism is considered "individualist anarchist" because it's not compatible with property being redistributed involuntarily by a collective either.

 

All Agorists are Voluntaryist, but not all Voluntaryists are Agorist.

 

Agorism is different, in that it's not a philosophy like Voluntaryism so to speak. Agorists are simply people employing counter-economic measures as their specific form of "anarchy action". Anarchy action is people employing methods based outside of the system, to fight it. For example, ancoms (anarcho communists, and anarcho syndicalists) will riot, think of "black block" breaking a starbuck's window or lighting a cop car on fire. This, and other forms of political violence are ancoms taking "Anarchy Action"  Their philosophies allow for violence to achieve political ends.

 

Same with some anarcho-capitalists out there that have a hard on for a boogaloo, and think a bloody revolution is the way to achieve anarchy. Agorists believe in violence strictly for self defense, so our anarchy action is limited to non-violent, non-destructive counter-economic means. Agorists aim to collapse the state by starving it economically by creating non-taxable economic channels.

 

Since Agorists are Voluntaryist, we believe it's OK to sell weed, drugs, and sell pussy, so long as it's voluntary transaction, so we encourage non-violent, NAP compliant black and gray market activity. We encourage starving the state in less risky economic ways like growing your own non taxable food, or buying locally on the gray market direct farm to table no FDA, no IRS. We invented and promoted cryptocurrencies for this very reason.

 

Think the fall of the USSR, the vast majority of economic activity in the USSR was on the black market. The more oppressive the government, the more opportunities to sell illegal items. Eventually the Soviets couldn't tax the economy, or print up enough rubles enough to pay for troops, etc and it dissolved peacefully, without any violent political action being taken. The people went on, surviving because the black market for food was robust enough to feed them, and so on. That's what Agorists hope to achieve, peacefully removing a parasitic organization (the state) from it's productive host.

 

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21 hours ago, Mercer said:

Voluntaryism is a philosophy that all human interactions should be voluntary. States can force involuntary interactions like taxes on their subjects, or they can forcibly stop voluntary actions like someone buying weed, or pussy. This is why Voluntaryism falls under anarchy, because it's not compatible with government's involuntary nature. Voluntaryism is considered "individualist anarchist" because it's not compatible with property being redistributed involuntarily by a collective either.

 

21 hours ago, Mercer said:

 

All Agorists are Voluntaryist, but not all Voluntaryists are Agorist.

 

Agorism is different, in that it's not a philosophy like Voluntaryism so to speak. Agorists are simply people employing counter-economic measures as their specific form of "anarchy action". Anarchy action is people employing methods based outside of the system, to fight it. For example, ancoms (anarcho communists, and anarcho syndicalists) will riot, think of "black block" breaking a starbuck's window or lighting a cop car on fire. This, and other forms of political violence are ancoms taking "Anarchy Action"  Their philosophies allow for violence to achieve political ends.

 

All interactions being voluntary is a genuinely great idea, but there’s some holes in this Voluntaryism, (as there obviously are in all political philosophies.)
 

Some people want the state, therefore collapsing the state and starving it economically does not sound like something they were willingly participating in. Collapsing a political and economic system will undoubtedly cause violence, so while it may not be direct, it is still resulting in violence.
 

Public property becoming private is also most certainly property being involuntarily redistributed by a collective. I like public lands, i do not think all lands should be privately owned.
 

Drawing more lines in the sand only leads to more violence. The lines we currently have drawn lead to incredible amounts of violence. The Hatfield’s and McCoy’s can’t dispute their lands if there’s no line drawn. The grass can’t seem greener on the other side, if there is no other side

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