Samuel Edward Konkin III, among other things, had a tendency to create new terms in order to attempt to describe the circumstances and new concepts in the confusing milieu of the early libertarian movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's.
Below are some (partially updated) examples.
- Agora
- greek word meaning “open marketplace.”
- Agoric
- of or pertaining to the agora. Market-oriented.
- Agorism
- the ideology which asserts that the Libertarian philosophical position occurs in the real world in practice as Counter-Economics (see below).
- Agorist
- advocate or conscious practitioner of Counter-Economics, older terms include Left Libertarian and New Libertarian.
- Counter-Economics
- the study and/or practice of all human action which is forbidden by the State.
- Counter-Economist
- 1. one who practices Counter-Economics, often unconsciously, unless an Agorist. 2. One who studies the Counter-Economy.
- Counter-Economy
- the sum of all human action proscribed by the State. Preliminary studies suggest it is far larger than the officially regulated “Economy” which appears above the surface, hence occasional agorist references to the “tip of the iceberg.”
- Libertarian
- one who opposes state intervention, i.e., a defender of Liberty.
- Libertarian Center
- usually an activist, organization or tendency which supports the “Libertarian” Party and moderate positions compromising between minarchy and anarchy, counter-economics and politics, gradualism and abolitionism, working with the Left and working with the Right in coalitions, etc. Best-known example – the Libertarian Party.
- Libertarian Left
- activist, organization, publication or tendency which opposes parliamentarianism (electoral politics), defends Counter-Economists, and prefers alliances with radical and revolutionary tendencies to those with conservative ones. Best-known examples – Alliance of the Libertarian Left (ALL), the voluntaryist movement.
- Libertarian Right
- activist, organization, publication or tendency which supports parliamentarianism exclusively as a strategy for reducing or abolishing the state, typically opposes Counter-Economics, either opposes the LP or works to drag it right and prefers coalitions with supposedly “free-market” conservatives. Best-known examples – Ron Paul, Republican Liberty Caucus.
- Minarchist
- term coined in 1971 by SEK3 to substitute for the clumsy phrase, “limited-government Libertarian.”
- New Libertarian
- more or less synonymous with Agorist and Left Libertarian, but implies one is in the process of transition between old (1969) Murray Rothbard Libertarian ideology to the post 1974 integrated agorist position. Editors note – The term derives from an early Konkin newsletter, New Libertarian Notes, inspired by the name of the old SDS newsletter New Left Notes.
- Partyarch
- term of derision coined by SEK3 in 1972 to denote “anarchists” who had rejected the State (head of the octopus) only to embrace its tentacle, a political party.