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ROTHBARD VS. KONKIN: THE BALLOT OR THE BLACK MARKET

While sharing the anarcho-capitalist horizon, Murray Rothbard and Samule Konkin III were irreconcilable tactical foes.

Rothbard bet on political realism: founding parties, voting, and forging alliances to dismantle the system from within.

Konkin, however, rejected the ballot box as a moral trap. His answer was Agorism: ignoring the State and starving it of resources through counter-economics.

While Rothbard sought to temporarily seize the throne to destroy it, Konkin taught how to build a parallel market where the throne simply no longer mattered.

It’s the timeless battle between political reform and direct action.

Which philosophy of these two activists do you adhere to?