If you have twelve minutes of free time....

For fans of intellectual history, this interview with Samuel Edward Konkin III will satisfy your deepest curiosities about the nature of the freedom movement in the 1960's. Konkin, who authored the New Libertarian Manifesto and put "agorism" in a few obscure web dictionaries, helped craft the distinction between anarcho-capitalism and market anarchism. Agorism explicitly opposes intellectual property, voting and parliamentary strategies, while siding with individualist anarchists in favor of an economy where workers are also owners.

Konkin's description of his first exposure to the ideas of liberty suggests the richness of this interview. Enjoy:

Heinlein in Moon is a Harsh Mistress first gave me the concept ("Rational Anarchist").  When I found out that Bernardo de la Paz was based on a real person (Robert LeFevre), I took it seriously.  I progressed through the Canadian and then U.S.  Right via Frank Meyer (who, until his death in 1970, attempted a synthesis of conservative and Libertarian, called "Fusionism") and Ludwig von Mises (who called himself a Liberal right up to his death in 1973 at the age of 92; I knew him for his last three years).  Both led in different ways to Rothbard but he was being smeared as pro-communist in those Viet Nam War days for his militant isolationism.  The final step was provided by an anti-communist free-market anarchist named Dana Rohrabacher at the St.  Louis YAF Convention.  He was a charismatic campus activist, radicalized by Robert LeFevre who provided him with small funding to travel the country with his instrument and folk songs from campus to campus, converting YAF chapters into Libertarian Alliances and SIL chapters.  Alas, later he fell into politics, but not the LP.  The Libertarian billionaire Charles Koch supported him in two failed Republicans primary campaigns, and after Rohrabacher put in time as Ronald Reagan's speechwriter, he got his reward of a safe seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Orange County.  He is still in office today, with growing seniority.  There are few issues on which he is still Libertarian, certainly fewer than, say, Ron Paul holds.

Gracias to Karen Decoster for drawing my attention in the right direction.