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A correspondent just asked me if I would consider running for a seat on the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), the governing board of the Libertarian Party at the national level here in the US, in order to help “maintain the integrity of the ideology.”

Apparently, my attempt to appeal to the platform-related frustration of partyarchs in the LP (in pursuit of the agorist mid-range goal of destruction of the LP) here only confused matters.

Hopefully, the following reply to that correspondent will clarify:

A few years ago, I would have loved to. A few years ago, there would have been no reason to ask me in particular.

What I’ve been agonizing about over the past three years or so is my increasing understanding that the ideology is incomplete so long as it teaches the mistaken notion that libertarian political progress (toward the goal of a stateless society) can be measured in classical liberal terms — the scope of state policy.

My job is to evangelize disobedience where such disobedience is profitable. Disobedience, not the scope of state policy, is my chosen criteria for evaluation of libertarian progress.

Those last two sentences are the agorist doctrine of counter-economics, agorist revolutionary praxis, in a nutshell. A political party is not merely a poor tool for teaching anti-statist disobedience. A political party is directly opposed to that anti-statist message as revealed by actions — attempting to elect leaders of a state, a state which coercively compels obedience, regardless of how liberal its policies. Thus, I am opposed to not just the current (particularly odious, Republican-lite) Libertarian Party, but ANY Libertarian Party or ANY political parties at all.

I address the remaining relatively hard-core still within the Libertarian Party not in hopes of buttressing the crumbling walls of the illusory prison called a political party which they have locked themselves in. I’m here to tell you that you can walk through walls.

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