Question: So Agorism Relies Solely on Market Forces to Accomplish the Abolition of the State?
On the role of advocacy…
Question: So Agorism Relies Solely on Market Forces to Accomplish the Abolition of the State?
Answer: Not quite. The market is restrained not merely by literal force/coercion, but by statist “false consciousness” — i.e. the false belief that state dictates carry moral weight. See also La Boetie’s “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”.
By working to build a revolutionary class consciousness of the productive class exploited by the parasitic state, peaceful but forbidden market activity becomes a new option for people who wouldn’t have previously considered it. In doing so, we gradually develop the market for enterprise provision of security and dispute resolution services.
The long process of building a pervasive black market counter-establishment economy (or counter-economy for short) also gradually weakens the state by diminishing its supply of ill-gotten loot. Eventually, the state collapses mostly under the wieght of its own contradictions as it goes bankrupt — but the remaining diehards will be arrested like any other bandits ought to be.
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