Counter-economics as revolutionary praxis and the rise of the Russian Business Network (RBN)

One doesn’t have to gloss over the ethical problems (from a libertarian point of view) with any particular illegal enterprise in order to analyze the prefigurative indicators of insurrectionary potential inherent in counter-economic activity. John Robb makes an excellent such analysis in his recent post on the Russian Business Network (RBN). Also pay attention to the second and third sections of this older post.

The challenge for advocates of agorism in this environment boils down to boosting their public advocacy of the non-aggression principle to such a point that adherence to it begins to “pay” in a sense of significantly reduced defense costs for those illegal enterprises which do adhere to it. The result would be a coherent “lasing” from red market activity to black market activity.