How did consumers become so separated from producers? Why are there less and less good options available for food, goods, and other services? Why is there not a huge supply of untaxed, unregulated grey and black market goods, with countless supply lines providing a robust and healthy market for those who wish to get their needs met through non-government channels? There are some places on earth where a direct to consumer relationship is still thriving, but we are focused on making this available in the vast areas that have moved past this practice.
The major reason why more farmers don’t work outside of the government system is fear. They have a healthy fear that they will be found and punished if they go against “the law” (aka “the lie”). Our mission is to make it possible for farmers, agorists, and anyone seeking to free themselves from taxes or regulations to sell without fear of government persecution.
There is a common perception that in order to be “doing agorism”, one has to be disconnected from social media and other forms of communication. We recognize the value of privacy and support those who wish to remain disconnected, but there is also great value in having a public-interfacing faction of the network aimed at growing and upgrading the network of individuals who recognize the true nature of the State and of all who seek to restrict the freedom to peacefully conduct oneself with other consenting individuals, the right to freedom of association, the right of self-defense, and the right to restitution for damages done to the person or property of the individual unless the damage was inflicted in self-defense.
There will have to be a group of people who are putting themselves on the line in order to grow the network. We are not trying to make a network that is insular and inaccessible to outsiders. We need to create something that is both safe and widespread, as the survival of the network relies on its dispersed nature, not on one branch becoming large and noticeable and thus susceptible to being torn down. This benefits the market and every individual in it as it is imperative to have multiple sources of goods and services to create resilient, decentralized, and redundant networks.
Our current system, heavily reliant on taxes and regulations, hinders true freedom and wealth by funding undesirable activities and limiting individual choice. A key problem is the lack of accessible, tax-free goods and services, as producers fear leaving the traditional system due to uncertain demand. While the demand for such "agorist" goods exists, consumers struggle to find them.
Our solution is a decentralized network that uses Agorism to foster freedom, wealth, and resilience. We're building connections between consumers and producers, creating free marketplaces where all vocations can thrive outside the conventional system. Decentralization ensures there's no single point of failure or monopoly, providing countless sources of goods and services, increased consumer choice, and a robust contingency plan for supply lines.
When you begin to think in terms of the real world and what is possible when people are free to act as they want, you can begin to see the value that would be kept in the family if we made more decisions that favored people who knew how to direct their actions toward building a strong network that will take care of us when we were in trouble.
For example, the network we are working on opposes the idea of keeping a job that funds the state when there are jobs available to you that don’t. That’s why we are working to expand the number of jobs available within the network that meet these criteria: they do not fund the state or people who fund the state. Eventually, this will look like all participants in all transactions not funding the state with their shelter, job, food, or leisure activities.
The following is an overview of this website with a link to each section.
The current page.
We are focusing on growing the wealth of everyone we can through agorism. Agorism is the practice of circumventing the State through counter-economics.
Voluntaryism is the moral philosophy that all forms of interaction should be voluntary, and that the only just use of force is defensive force. We abide by the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) which dictates that no action be taken that violates another’s consent if not in self-defense.
We are practicing voluntaryism with a twist. Voluntaryism plus intention. To get a more concise and potent result, we are more concise with our parameters. Those parameters are simply: are you making the world more free for just yourself? Or does your plan make the world more free for others as well?
Anyone in the next 100 years could find this set of instructions and re-create what we are doing now. But there will be no need to start from scratch. As soon as the number of people are proliferating the ideas contained herein, there will be more aversions and more resiliency because of them.
Welcome to the agora! This is the wolcome desk of Caravanarchy. Here you will find a year-round marketplace to exchange ideas and goods.
Both network host (accepting new members to be vetted for further network involvement) and welcome outpost, the caravan blends these capabilities while retaining wings focused on outreach, protection, and whatever other topics the current team cares about.
Our “Ice Cream Philosophy” is that
we strive to bring to market the finest quality
Homemade Ice Cream products, sourcing
ingredients from as many agorist sources as
possible, sourcing only the highest quality
ingredients.
This means no gums or perservatives, all organic
ingredients (when possible), and raw heavy cream
when we have a quality agorist source nearby.
We are a private membership association and we
pride ourselves on our handmade small-batch
process to ensure the ice cream is fresh and
customized to the occasion.
This section contains information on the avenues that lead into into the more protected areas of the network.
Want to join the inner realm? This is an overview of what is required to move forward into the protected areas of the network and introduces the avenues one may take to achieve this position.
One may spend time with a network host who has pledged to host you on the property of their choosing while introducing you to the network and assessing your understanding of the tenets of the network.
Guilds are like guilds in which one may learn a trade or practice a trade. Preferred Guilds follow certain guidelines outlined herein.
The security mesh consists of all people who know that the state is illegitimate and who are able in some way or another to be available to help someone in need without using state intervention.
A guide to having better conversations through asking for consent before engaging.
A discussion of popular pieces of media, especially those that are beloved in the anarchist community, where they fail philosophically and how that may hold us back.
This is a repository of information in the form of links to writings on agorism and voluntaryism.
How will you create your new role in the life you were meant to live?
What is your comfortability level with risk? This can help you determine on what level do you want to become involved in the network. We need people on all levels, from spreading the word to delivering goods to the network.
A location is only as safe as the contingency plan and its feasibility. Any one location is vulnerable. Having a backup is a step up. Having a huge network of people is closer to the objective by far.
We need to have easily referenced, better versions of things and ways to say it. We have a lot to leave behind. There are certain aspects of the current paradigm that have been holding us back. The effort to adopt a new paradigm can be aided by the addition of a new language and concepts to fill in the gaps.
More ways we can break free of mindsets that are holding us back.
Determine how you can change your life depending on what you are passionate about and what need to change in your life.
A self assessment to help you create a larger vision for what you could be doing with your life based on gradual levels of improvement in areas of your choosing.
Reasons why the state is unnatural and how that may well lead to its dissolution over time.
A board where agorists can post the goods and services they need or want as well as what they offer. There are distinctions between inner realm and outer-realm.
This is a guide outlining the scope of what is possible in the next 1-10 years. This is not a guide on how to create a voluntaryist society starting where you are with only the resources present in your local community. That is not possible. To achieve this goal, an individual must network with people who both share the vision and who understand the strategy needed to make the vision a reality. No matter how far away these pepole are, they are infinitely more useful towards the goal of a voluntary society than someone who understands the philosophy but has no vision.
Spreading freedom (and a voluntaryist society) requires that you first take care of your personal need for autonomy and freedom. It will also require intentional choices aimed at both starving and bleeding our primary enemy (the State) of resources and power while supporting and bolstering your allies and friends in freedom.
The first step is to ascertain whether relocation or nomadic living might be the most lucrative way to achieve your short-term goals while transitioning out of the non-agorist system (What is Agorism?). There are locations available for short or long-term living rent and work-free while you detox from society or re-evaluate your goals. These are voluntary spaces, both nomadic and stationary, which take shape depending on the unanimous consent of the people who reside there.
We seek these spaces out on our journeys, so that everywhere we go, we can direct you to them. As time progresses, these spaces will transform. For example, a property with no development on it can be used to sustain people who just need a place to stay. If multiple people live there, the cost of living can be very small because you only need one vehicle to get food and water. Working together, we can use free and natural materials to build shelters. These properties can produce exports that nomadic travelers can sell for them along their travels.
If you would like to open up a space for this purpose, let us know.
We are often told that in order to create the change we want to see in the world, we have to start by changing ourselves. The reasoning goes that if we start having more positive interactions, those around us will also be empowered to have positive interactions. I think this is a good idea, but that it essentially disempowers those who adhere to it. What is implied is that the most change we could possibly feel accountable for is a very small shift in the way certain people think or act due to our positive vibes.
Most people I meet are already advanced enough spiritually and mentally that they know what it is to be a good person and can recognize a good interaction when they see it. We do not need to become spiritual gurus in order for the world to be affected by our good actions.
With the network (which we are not creating but are helping grow) our reasoning is similar but differs in a very important way. We believe that if you understand the non-agression principle, and its implications, including the self-defense principle, once introduced to it, you already have the necessary development to empower those around you.
We also believe that the infrastructure is not yet in place that would create a simple and effortless transition for you and those around you into a life adhering to this principle.
Therefore, we have created this framework in order to inspire you and those you communicate with. Hopefully, it will help you understand a new way of doing things. This plan will require a fair amount of people to change their tune in order to actualize the vision, but in reality, many are already doing what it takes to make this possible.
To say that you alone can make the change needed is unrealistic. Perhaps, if you already were surrounded by only empowered and flexible voluntarists, who were already spending their entire lives trying to create an agorist counter economy, just being armed with this information could be all it took to mobilize yourself and those around you to start participating in a network that would change your lives and the entire world, eventually.
However, most people exist within webs with others who do not see the same potential outcome of freedom for all. People who, usually out of fear, are not willing to make a big change to their life to help this reality come into existence.
If you are in this situation, I do not encourage you to try to change the minds of those who do not want to hear it. Instead, you should use this network to find those who are already on the same path that you are.
You do not need to try to create a new paradigm from scratch in your current location or local community. To bring about the best of all possible worlds, where everyone has access to a free and fulfilling way of life, you must find those who already agree with your values and vision no matter where they might reside. Instead of trying to influence a lifestyle change in those still resistant to the idea of protected free communities, you can combine your efforts with those who share your intentions and who already see the vision of what is possible in this lifetime.
You could spend a lifetime trying to persuade others to see the vision themselves and then to become active in changing their own lives. But there is a quicker way to achieve freedom. Network with people who already understand that freedom from the existing lies, taxes, and restrictions on peaceful activity is needed, and grow resilient trade networks with those individuals toward that shared goal. This is called agorism, and this website is a guide to creating this in your own life.
Though some people have the drive and desire to be leaders at the forefront of a dispersed community that values and protects their freedom to peacefully interact and transact without repercussions, we can’t wait for those people to come out of the woodwork to begin creating a new free way of living. Word of mouth takes time to propagate. Most people can’t be expected to change when there isn’t an obvious and well-worn path towards a new way of living.
Creating a new world will require a relatively small dispersed group of people who not only are interested in a new world but who are prepared to take action in their lives to create an alternate network of agorists aimed at creating this ecosystem for each other, replacing streams of resources from the exploitative system with the networked goods and services of protected free markets. This does not mean an end to the importation and production of goods, but simply to better sources of them. Sources that do not, for example, fund the war machine, enslavement, and mass incarceration of human beings.
Until this alternative network becomes more ubiquitous, it will be hard for individuals to abandon their current lifestyle and transfer all their income and expenditures over to these free and ethical sources. There are already people spread out across the country and world who are prepared to make that shift in a way that creates more opportunities for everyone seeking a free way of life.
The larger community is made up of individuals who have the skills and knowledge necessary to support one another. What support does the individual need from a network? Every good or service you spend money on can be re-sourced. Medical care, insurance, gasoline, jobs, and education to name a few. Everything that drives the world today can be provided in a better way by the community.
Some say that a better future starts with an internal change - that you must start with yourself to make the world a better place. We don’t think one person’s actions alone are enough to create change at the scale needed to achieve our objective. In order to extend your range of influence and exercise your power to create change, you need to skip trying to change other people’s minds and instead connect to others who already see the way forward to make a change.
Networking with other freedom-seekers and expanding your social circles and trade options is the most effective way of creating the best of all possible worlds. We know this is the way to create the best of all possible worlds because it permits everyone to choose how to spend their time and resources without third parties imposing themselves on their free-will choices. You can’t change someone’s mind or make them advance spiritually or mentally in a way they are not ready to. But you can give people a better option to spend their hard earned resources and time on. This enables them to have more resources to pursue what makes them truly happy while also assuring themselves a better future.
This entire endeavor is focused on real solutions and pulling anarchists out of the current paradigm and placing them in the situations they need, regardless of the resources or money they have amassed as of yet in the zombie system. It’s not too hard to opt-out if you have enough support. This network is providing the extra support needed by those who don’t already have a group of individuals bolstering their efforts to bring about a free and thriving existence for themselves and others.
For those who want to get involved but don’t know how that would look, joining a network-connected caravan is the most immediate form of aid.
CaravAnarchy is the first caravan of this kind that we are aware of, although others have employed various aspects of it. We have 4 vehicles and the mobile camping infrastructure setup available so we can share the options available to us from having access to tools and infrastructure to support a loose, slow-moving caravan with the aim of ending slavery today through education, bolstering and establishing agorism and encouraging the connection between new and already made alternative networks. We offer immediate access to a free way of living and exploring what it means to exist and grow in the most authentic and empowered expression of yourself.
We aim to engage in agorist business and networking in the towns and cities we travel through. Presently, CaravAnarchy funds itself through donations and through multiple agorist business options we are equipped to employ. The aim is to create a marketplace every time we get to a new location, at which people in the nearby area can conduct their commerce in a safe and flourishing space. As traveling nomads, CaravAnarchy’s members do not share in the same debt-based lifestyle as most stationary peoples. This means members require fewer resources to sustain a happy, flourishing, and growth-based way of life with an abundance of time at your disposal.