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Title: Samuel Edward Konkin III Author: Kevin Carson Date: February 24, 2005 Language: en Topics: obituary, Samuel Edward Konkin III Source: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/02/samuel-edward-konkin-iii.html?m=1
Yesterday was the first anniversary of SEK3's death. I remembered
earlier this month that it was coming soon, but Wally Conger
. He has a nice memorial post at Out of Step.
Sam was a comrade of Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess back in the days of
their abortive alliance with the New Left, during and after the Radical
Libertarian Caucus' walkout from the YAF convention in St. Louis. He was
a fierce advocate for that alliance long after Rothbard had given it up
and gone Paleo. His
Movement of the Libertarian Left
was (still is) dedicated to pursuing Rothbard's early goal of a
libertarian coalition of left and right against the corporate state, in
the same spirit as Rothbard's own
venture and his collaboration with Ronald Radosh on A New History of
Leviathan (E.P. Dutton, 1972). Sam was also author of the
, and founder of the Agorist Institute and the
. Yet another of his creations, the LeftLibertarian email list at
Yahoogroups, is still a venue for productive (and often heated) debate
between members of a wide range of free market libertarian and
libertarian socialist species. The archives from 2000, for example,
contain a months-long free-for-all between Rothbardians and Georgists,
with some of the biggest contemporary names in the Geolib milieu
dropping in to take a few swings.
There aren't many dyed-in-the-wool Misean subjectivists who'd get caught
saying something like this:
...free-market and pro-entrepreneur as we are, MLL supports genuine
anarchosyndicalist unions which consistently refuse to collaborate with
the State. (In North America, that's the IWW and nothing else I know
of.) Second, if you look at the bottom, you'll note the abhorrence of
the IWW to politics and party; they split with the nascent U.S.
Socialist Party [actually SLP] on the same grounds that MLL split with
the formative USLP --- rejecting parliamentarianism for direct action.
If you have to have workers, they ought to be all IWW.... I wouldn't
have any other kind.
The SEK3 memorial service from last year can be viewed here; but unless
you've got a few hours to wait for it to load, you probably won't want
to try it if you've got crappy dial-up service like me.
Wally says:
This afternoon, I've lifted a pint of Guinness in his memory. I hope
other comrades will do the same (with their preferred beverage).
Hear, hear!