Economic secession
Economic secession is a term that John T. Kennedy introduced to refer to a libertarian/anarchist activist technique. Kennedy and others suggest that people who oppose the state abstain as much as they are able from the state’s economic system – for instance by replacing the use of government money with barter or commodity money (such as gold), providing goods and services without submitting to government regulations and licensing, avoiding taxation by keeping assets out of traceable accounts, etc.
Samuel Edward Konkin III used the term "counter-economics" to refer to a similar concept, writing that "The Counter-Economy is the sum of all human action that is forbidden by the State, in whole or part.")
Wendell Berry's version
Wendell Berry also promoted something he called “economic secession” in his 1991 essay Conservation and Local Economy:
See also
- Agorism
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Boycott
- Gulching
- Khadi
- Non-violent resistance
- Salt Satyagraha
- Secession
- Tax resistance
- Underground economy
- Voluntaryism
External links
- "Economic Secession" by John T. Kennedy
- "Economic Secession Won’t Succeed" by Gene Calahan
- "Economic Secession: a rebuttal" by Claire Wolfe
- "Counter-Economics: Our Means" by Samuel Edward Konkin III, chapter three of New Libertarian Manifesto
- Abstract: Wendell Berry's "Conservation and Local Economy"
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