To Whom Do You Belong? Welcome to Class Warfare

America is at that awkward stage; it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. – Claire Wolfe

Have you ever heard of the Agorist Class Theory? No? That’s alright because I am new to the idea myself. Agorism–simply stated–is “a stateless society of peaceful black markets.” What the Agorist Class Theory does is it reforms Marxim’s idea of the class struggle. Proponents argue that Marx was partly wrong and partly correct in his thinking on class warfare, but that he errs in his identification of the oppressor of the proletariat (the common man). Marxism, in a nutshell, maintains that the relationship between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production aka entrepreneurs and the like) is simply a continuation of the ancient practice of slavery.

Agorism and Marxism agree on the following premise: human society can be divided into at least two classes; one class is characterized by its control of the State and its extraction of unearned wealth from the other class.

Thus for the Agorist, the class struggle is not between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, but rather, the producing class (all workers and entrepreneurs) versus the Political class as identified by Charles Comte and Dunoyer some 150 years ago:

The political class is the parasitic class that acquires its livelihood via the “political means”–through “confiscation, taxation, and other forms of coercion.” Their victims are the rest of us–the productive class–those who make their living through peaceful and honest means of any sort, such as a worker and an entrepreneur.

I believe the agorists to be correct in their revision of Marx’s idea on class and a class struggle certainly does exist in society. If you would like to be properly introduced to this idea, then I suggest that you read Agorist Class Theory by Wally Conger. The PDF is only 38 pages in length.