Agorist Degrees

Level Up Your Freedom

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." — Albert Camus

"Agorist Degrees" is a unique self-assessment tool designed to help you map out your personal journey of unplugging from coercive systems and actively contributing to the creation of robust, voluntary alternatives.

The best way to take down the state is to live your life as an act of rebellion. Agorism has been around as long as humanity has. This is a guide to look at your life choices through that lens.

Agorism is a free-market anarchist philosophy that advocates achieving freedom through nonviolent and peaceful black market and grey market economics. Agorist Degrees help you look at your life choices through this lens—a self-assessment tool designed to help you map out options for unplugging from coercive systems and building voluntary alternatives. Think of it as an anarchist version of a New Year's resolution list.

This does not prescribe any specific action. We have suggestions here and more information in other publications on how you can achieve your goals without changing every single aspect of your life.

The main question we are focused on is: Are you living your life in a way that, should others follow your example, would eventually lead to the abolishment of the slavery that is government?

A Path Forward

We only need a certain amount of people to change their actions to defund the state and to create, fund, and help grow agorist alternatives. You can create spaces of freedom in the world today!

We are encouraging people to assess themselves on several areas of their life. They can use these pages, if they choose, to do a self assessment on several areas of their choice. This can be used to create a 'star plot' or graph resembling a web on which they are or ought to be spending their energy.

If our energy is being put towards endeavors that do not create lasting results in our lives, we need to explore options that better suit our needs and desires. Most people don't have the means currently to live the exact calling they feel they are here to do, or even utilize what they imagine would be the most effective use of their time and energy. However, agorism provides a much greater chance of success with these desires.

This guide is a way for those who participate in the assessment to notate what they have achieved so far and to brainstorm actionable ways to achieve more in the future.

How to Use Agorist Degrees

Goal: Increase your level.

You can formulate an achievement map, or 'star plot' by choosing five or more areas that you want to work to develop at this time. You can choose these from the Major Areas of Achievement listed below or create your own.

Examples of Major Areas of Achievement:

Trust

Spiritual Growth

Networking

Wealth

Relationships

Resiliency

The next step is to look at the reference ranking systems below and decide what level you would say you have already achieved. This is just a personal assessment, and there are no right answers. For example, you may have achieved:

  • Individual Commerce Level 2
  • Individual Domicile Level 3
  • Domicile Outreach Level 4

Write your current levels in the areas you have chosen. Now, for each of your chosen areas, create your own 'steps to achievement'. This is a list of 3-5 steps you can take forward in each Major Area of your life. Reference the levels below, or make your own. Choose achievements that you are excited to reach! Then, order them in any loose logical progression.

For example:

Networking Level 3:

  1. Actively works to bring awareness of real solutions to others.
  2. Promotes anarchist meetups and reminds people of them.
  3. Employs another anarchist.

Use these ordered lists of goals to create your web, noting what level you are starting from as well as what level you are hoping to achieve.

Individual Degrees

These degrees track your personal level of freedom and self-reliance across multiple life domains.

Domicile

  1. Entrenched in the state: Rent goes to those who support the state in the end.
  2. Transitioning: Actively seeking alternatives to state-supporting housing
  3. Reduced state support: Living arrangement minimizes state benefit
  4. Pays rent without taxes
  5. Pays rent to agorist landlord
  6. Is nomadic/their own landlord

Commerce/Economic

  1. Entrenched in the state: Supports the state in the end
  2. Learning Agorism: Some actions support agorism.
  3. Buys agorist products
  4. Creates agorist products
  5. Merchant: Trades and barters regularly on the agorist market where NAP-compliant.
  6. Employs another anarchist
  7. Employs anarchists in an off-the-books business that promotes anarchy.
  8. Saboteur: Businesses only drain the state, no longer supporting it.

Preparedness

  1. Entrenched in the state: Buys food and all needs at stores.
  2. Produce product that you can trade for food
  3. Have or have access to a reliable garden in which to grow food
  4. Grow/hunt enough of your own food to sustain in an emergency
  5. Serious Prepper: Have an off grid way to sustain yourself (1+ years).
  6. Sage: You have all this and a backup plan.
  7. Sage with allies

Outreach

  1. Entrenched in the state: Supports the state in the end
  2. Knows other anarchists
  3. Goes to anarchist meetups
  4. Promotes anarchist meetups and reminds people.
  5. Innovator: Hosts anarchist meetups/Highly involved in the agorist community.
  6. Creates new anarchist meetups in anarchically-undeveloped areas.

Philosophy

  1. Entrenched in the state: Believes there is no hope / supports the state.
  2. Sees way out of the system in this lifetime
  3. Dedicated Voluntaryist: Spreads the word (voluntaryist philosophy) actively.
  4. Actively works to bring awareness of real solutions to others
  5. Full time evangelist for anarchy

A-Political

  1. Abstainee: You don't vote and avoid paying many taxes.
  2. Saboteur: Your businesses only drain the state, no longer supporting it.
  3. Off Grid Master: You've completely taken back your life, have no ID etc.

Domicile Degrees

These degrees track the freedom level of your household or property—how it's used, who it supports, and what it enables.

Landowner

  1. Non-Anarchist landowner
  2. Anarchist landlord/land owner
  3. Landlord takes anarchist/agorist actions
  4. Landlord promotes anarchy
  5. Landlord hosts or interacts with anarchists
  6. Landlord devotes time and energy to individuals who are learning about anarchy
  7. Landlord devotes time, energy, and space to people who are learning about anarchy
  8. Anarchist Host
  9. Anarchist Hub
  10. Anarchist Haven

Commerce/Economic

  1. No effort is made to redirect money towards agorist sources.
  2. Efforts are made to be conscious of economic decisions
  3. Goods are acquired on black and grey markets
  4. Household consumes anarchist goods
  5. Household produces anarchist goods
  6. Household mostly consumes anarchist goods
  7. Household uses commerce to introduce people to the network and anarchy

General Philosophy

  1. Entrenched in the state: All inhabitants support the state with all transactions.
  2. Leading the pack: Only one member (of many) supports agorism.
  3. Innovators: 2 or more members are agorists.
  4. Encouragers: One or more members support anarchist discussions or meetups
  5. Enablers: Rents space to anarchists
  6. Hosts: People are hosted and exposed to anarchy
  7. Hubs: Agorism flows through anarchist businesses or access points
  8. Havens: Group/s of anarchists live long term on property

Outreach

  1. Household holds anarchist discussions/meetups
  2. All members of household are anarchists
  3. Household displays anarchist propaganda
  4. Household hosts those learning about anarchy
  5. Anarchist Hub
  6. Anarchist Haven

A-Political

  1. Property taxes are not paid
  2. Property owner has acquired a land patent or other action against the state.
  3. Produce product that you can trade for food
  4. Have or have access to a reliable garden in which to grow food
  5. Grow/hunt enough of your own food to sustain in an emergency
  6. Serious Prepper: Have an off grid way to sustain yourself (1+ years).
  7. Sage: You have all this and a backup plan

Community Degrees

These degrees measure your broader impact—how your actions affect the anarchist community and advance the cause of freedom.

Preparedness

  1. Supports the state in the end
  2. Helps those involved create more anarchy
  3. Affects many anarchists
  4. Promotes other agorist business
  5. Sets up long term trade agreement
  6. Agreement enables an anarchist to further remove themselves from the system.

Commerce/Economic

  1. Supports the state in the end
  2. Helps those involved create more anarchy
  3. Affects many anarchists
  4. Promotes other agorist business
  5. Sets up long term trade agreement
  6. Agreement enables an anarchist to further remove themselves from the system.

Outreach

  1. Supports the state in the end
  2. Helps those involved create more anarchy
  3. Affects many anarchists
  4. Promotes other agorist business
  5. Sets up long term trade agreement
  6. Agreement enables an anarchist to further remove themselves from the system.

A-Political

  1. Abstainee: You don't vote and avoid paying many taxes.
  2. Off Grid Master: You've completely taken back your life, have no ID etc.

Transaction Degrees

These degrees measure how your individual interactions spread freedom—both to those already in the network and those encountering these ideas for the first time.

With a Statist

  1. Does not introduce to anarchy
  2. Introduces the concept of anarchy for a second or subsequent time.
  3. Introduces the concept of anarchy for the first time.
  4. Brings into the network via Guild, land, caravan or commerce.

With an Anarchist

  1. Supports the state in the end
  2. Helps those involved create more anarchy
  3. Affects many anarchists
  4. Promotes other agorist business
  5. Sets up long term trade agreement

Taking Action

Now that you've assessed where you are, it's time to level up. Choose 3-5 specific areas where you want to increase your degree over the next quarter. Write down:

  1. Current level in each area
  2. Target level you want to reach
  3. Specific actions that will get you there
  4. Timeline for achieving each level

Revisit your assessment quarterly to track progress and adjust your focus areas as needed.

Continue Your Journey

Want more self-assessment questions? Check out Freedom Prompts for deeper reflection.

Looking for practical strategies to increase your degrees? Visit Agorist Tactics.

Ready to connect with others at your level? Explore The Adventurer's Hall.

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