Counter-economics was integrated by Schulman into Konkin's doctrine of agorism,[2] a left-libertarian[3][4] social philosophy and branch of left-wing market anarchism that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges.
The first presentation of the theory of counter-economics was made by Samuel Edward Konkin III at a conference organized by J. Neil Schulman in 1974 held in Cheshire, Massachusetts.
Konkin's agorism, as exposited in his New Libertarian Manifesto,[6] postulates that the correct method of achieving a voluntary society is through advocacy and growth of the underground economy or "black market" – the "counter-economy" as Konkin put it – until such a point that the State's perceived moral authority and outright power have been so thoroughly undermined that revolutionary market anarchist legal and security enterprises are able to arise from underground and ultimately suppress government as a criminal activity (with taxation being treated as theft, war being treated as mass murder, et cetera).
[7]According to Konkin, counter-economics also allows for immediate self-liberation from statist controls, to whatever degree practical, by applying entrepreneurial logic to rationally decide which laws to discreetly break and when.
Bylund believes developing means to refuse dependency on state services and become self-reliant can be an effective course of action to achieve free market[non sequitur] processes.
Some of them will also find it in their interest to do this on a larger scale, producing and distributing goods and services without ever paying taxes or following unnecessary government regulations and controls.