Principles of agorism – now in video format

I recently published a post Principles of agorism, in which I included a comment by Alexander Tatarkov made to my post regarding a business idea for an agorist in the catering sector. Now Alexander has released a YouTube video, where he has significantly expanded his text, adding a historical introduction, various motivational inserts, and presenting the principles of agorism in a more detailed manner.

It is intended that he will continue to expand on the topic, so subscribe to the channel; you will be able to learn many interesting things. The author is still excessively wordy, so I listen to him at 1.5x speed.

Popularization of freedom

Vitaly Tizun, whose essay Theory of a Free Society I suggested for your attention in early March, has started a sequel and has already released the first chapter, Popularization of Freedom. In it, he argues the idea that arguments in favor of panarchy are more convincing to the masses because they do not require giving anything up, but on the contrary, boil down to everyone getting what they want, much like what the famous Russian panarchist Vladimir Zhirinovsky also promised, with the only difference being that these promises will be truthful. It is difficult for me to judge the intent of the entire work so far, but the style is generally good, so I will follow the process, although I do not guarantee that I will cover it in detail. Vitaly posts announcements in his Telegram channel, so you can subscribe and track it yourself.

Contagious Libertarianism

Bitarch released an article Contagious Libertarianism, in which he complains about the linear growth rates of the audience for the overwhelming majority of libertarian resources. Likening libertarianism to an infection, Bitarch notes that contagion occurs only through a few passionate individuals, and thereafter, the transmission through the chain of those infected is quite weak. He then uses Greta Thunberg as an example, noting that she managed to make her discourse truly contagious, as illustrated by a graph of her Twitter follower growth, which showed exponential growth until the coronavirus, after which the Thunberg epidemic finally plateaued because humanity went into quarantine.

Indeed, my successes look significantly more modest, and the trend is closer to linear (the major jump was the advertisement by Pozharsky):

So immediately forward this post to ten friends, and let each one subscribe to my channel; only in this way will libertarian ideas acquire the necessary contagiousness. You don’t want to? How dare you!

Seriously though, Bitarch goes on to propose a set of criteria that a sufficiently contagious idea must satisfy, and at the end, as an example of such an idea, he offers his slogan freedom NAP or death! It seems to me that the premise the state does not save from the pandemic, but civil society does. Down with the state, long live civil society! would look much fresher and more relevant today. I am not, of course, referring to the high-society GrOb, which only saves you from boredom.

Conditions for the Stability of Anarchy

The Anarchy+ channel released an analysis of several approaches to researching the conditions for the stability of anarchy. It mentions the published translation by me in early February of Hirschleifer’s work Anarchy and its Decay, but also provides links to some other works. For convenience, all materials have been kindly collected by the author into one archive attached to the post.

The post calls for attention in kitchen discussions of anarchy to be paid not only to the models of society being proposed, but also to their sustainability conditions; and to avoid profanation, to familiarize oneself with various approaches to this topic, to remember the limits of the models’ applicability, to clarify the terminology used, and to observe other basics of civilized discussion.