New Libertarian Manifesto
Samuel Edward Konkin III
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[12] PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
NLM.Pre.2.1 An agorist publication ought to be judged most severely in the free marketplace. Sure enough, the first edition of New Libertarian Manifesto (NLM) has been sold out and a second edition, taken up by a fresh entrepreneur looking for profit with his ideology, is with you, the reader. The market’s judgement, to my pleasant surprise, is that NLM is the most successful of my many publications.
NLM.Pre.2.2 In the realm of ideas, two years is a fairly short time. Nevertheless, attacks on NLM have begun in Left-Centre Libertarian publications and one such student network newsletter berated errant chapters for switching allegiance to “that flake, Konkin” only last month. Essays and articles on Counter-Economics and agorism appear in more and more non-Left (or non-agorist—yet) libertarian publications.
NLM.Pre.2.3 A truly encouraging sign is the emergence of many Counter-Economic entrepreneurs in the Southern California area (and a few scattered around North America and even Europe) who embrace and distribute NLM. An agorist “industrial park” has been condensing quietly in Orange County between these two editions.
NLM.Pre.2.4 This gratification is not idly enjoyed. It has inspired the author to continue the dialogue in two issues of a theoretical journal based on NLM, the writing of Counter-Economics (see footnote 26), and the planning of a theoretical magnum opus, as Das Capital was to the Communist Manifesto, undoubtedly to be titled Agorism.
NLM.Pre.2.5 [13] As for continuing to practice what I preach and expanding on the practice, I may add to the end of the First Preface…
NLM.Pre.2.6 And I’m still doing it.
—Samuel Edward Konkin III
February, 1983
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