Samuel Edward Konkin III

Samuel Edward Konkin III (aka SEK3) was the author of The New Libertarian Manifesto and a proponent of the political philosophy which he called agorism. Agorism is a subset of market anarchism specifically opposed to intellectual property. Konkin died on February 23 2004.

Related Topics:
Agorism - Market anarchism - February 23 - 2004

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In the 1970s and 1980s, he lived with a group of other anarchists in an apartment building on 7th Street in Long Beach, California, nick-named the Anarcho-Village.

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Konkin argued against voting, and specifically opposed involvement in the Libertarian Party. In The New Libertarian Manifesto he explained how he believed a libertarian society could come about. This would theoretically be through a process of people withdrawing their consent to be governed by the state, and moving their economic activities into the black market and grey market where they would be untaxed and unregulated. Konkin used the term "Counter-Economics" to describe this approach.

Related Topics:
Voting - Libertarian Party - Libertarian - Black market - Grey market

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Unlike many libertarians, Konkin saw libertarianism as a movement of the left. He was a founder of the Agorist Institute and the Movement of the Libertarian Left. The novel Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman is based on Konkin's political ideas.

Related Topics:
Left - J. Neil Schulman

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Konkin was also a proponent of historical revisionism, and while not known to advocate holocaust denial himself, became active in support of the Institute for Historical Review on the grounds that he believed that defending the holocaust denial movement was the cutting edge of free speech. Konkin is criticized in the book Anarchism: Left, Right, and Green by Ulrike Heider for this stance.

Related Topics:
Historical revisionism - Holocaust denial - Institute for Historical Review

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Konkin was the publisher of the irregularly produced New Libertarian magazine.

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