12                      Samuel Edward Konkin III


 
        Preface to the Second Edition

   An agorist publication ought to be judged 
most severely in the free marketplace.  Sure 
enough, the first edition of <i>New Libertarian 
Manifesto</i> (<i>NLM</i>) has been sold out and a second edi-
tion, taken up by a fresh entrepreneur looking 
for profit with his ideology, is with you, the 
reader.  The market’s judgement, to my pleas-
ant surprise, is that <i>NLM</i> is the most success-
ful of my many publications.
   In the realm of ideas, two years is a fairly 
short time.  Nevertheless, attacks on <i>NLM</i> have 
begun in Left-Centre Libertarian publications 
and one such student network newsletter be-
rated errant chapters for switching allegiance 
to “that flake, Konkin” only last month.  Es-
says and articles on Counter-Economics and 
agorism appear in more and more non-Left (or 
non-agorist—yet) libertarian publications.
   A truly encouraging sign is the emergence 
of many Counter-Economic entrepreneurs in 
the Southern California area (and a few scat-
tered around North America and even Europe) 
who embrace and distribute <i>NLM</i>.  An agorist 
“industrial park” has been condensing quietly 
in Orange County between these two editions.
   This gratification is not idly enjoyed.  It has 
inspired the author to continue the dialogue 
in two issues of a theoretical journal based on 
<i>NLM</i>, the writing of <i>Counter-Economics</i> (see 
footnote 26), and the planning of a theoretical 
magnum opus, as <i>Das Capital</i> was to the <i>Com-
munist Manifesto</i>, undoubtedly to be titled <i>Agorism</i>.





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   As for continuing to practice what I preach 
and expanding on the practice, I may add to 
the end of the First Preface…
   And I’m still doing it.

                       —Samuel Edward Konkin III
                                  February, 1983