Samuel Edward Konkin, III: The New Libertarian

07/20/2010 Jeff Riggenbach

“The more controls and taxation a State imposes on its people,” Sam wrote, “the more they will evade and defy them...

All (non-coercive) human action committed in defiance of the State constitutes the Counter-Economy.“ The Counter-Economy is, therefore, pretty vast.

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