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Agora: The Podcast

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Your home for agorism, localism, radical decentralization, and anti-authoritarian concepts.

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Jan 6, 2026

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Episodes

Agora #70: Jeremiah Harding 20.01.2023

Join us as we talk with anarchist Jeremiah Harding, as we discuss conspiracy theories, the left versus right ideological battles, tension campaigns, propaganda, full-throated opposition to the warfare state, and a lot more.

Agora #69: Zach (Agora Mutualist) 18.01.2023

We talk with Zach, formerly known as Immortal Nomad, now re-branded as Agora Mutualist, to talk about mental health, psychiatry, substance abuse, and the effects of environment and society on human well-being.

Agora #68: End-of-year Panel Discussion 06.01.2023

Join us for our end-of-year and predictions panel podcast, featuring big-time friends of the show Dagorist & Rae, Rayo from The Vonu Podcast, Derrick Broze, and Keith McHenry from Food Not Bombs.

Agora #67: A Bonus December Episode 30.12.2022

We recorded a special episode this month. In it, we discuss a bevy of subjects where we double down on our theories of decentralizing production and a peer-to-peer economy, talk about industries and specific examples, and answer a cool question from a friend of the pod, on counter-economy. 

Agora #66: Drew Cook 27.12.2022

This week we have on Drew Cook, a libertarian, founder of the Sober Caucus, and harm reduction activist. We go into a range of topics from his activism, the organizations he's founded, overdose reversals, fentanyl, libertarian attitudes towards the Drug War, and the nature of substance use under Prohibition. 

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part XIV 18.12.2022

Part XIV of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae.  This audio file includes the remainder of Chapter Seven.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part XIII 17.12.2022

Part XIII of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae. This audio file includes the Chapter Seven, sections A-E.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part XII 16.12.2022

Part XII of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae.  This audio file includes the Chapter Six, sections E & F.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part XI 15.12.2022

Part XI of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae.  This audio file includes the Chapter Six, sections A-D.

Agora #65: Kumo 15.12.2022

Friend-of-the-pod Kumo joins us to talk about his background and his journey to libertarian ideals from the Left, as well as two articles he recently wrote. In the first, Kumo discusses his response to and critique of the high-tech, hypercapitalist, dystopian setting of the anime series "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners". In the second, he uses the animated film, "Kiki's Delivery Service" to write about the...

A Critique of Social Democracy 04.12.2022

Penguin recorded some bonus content in the form of an audio essay that's now being released to the general public. In it, he takes social democratic and socialist ideas seriously as a competitor ideology, and explains why the idea of mass democracy and centralization are flawed attempts at addressing the systemic flaws of the status quo.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part X 02.12.2022

Part X of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae.  This audio file includes the remainder of Chapter Five.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part IX 30.11.2022

Part IX of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae.  This audio file includes the first two sections of Chapter Five.

Agora #64: The Cathedral 14.11.2022

You may have heard people mention the "Cathedral" or engage in discourse on the term. What does it mean? What is its origin? Does the concept have any validity, or parallels, or better alternative explanations? We discuss this topic and related ones in this episode.

Agora #63: Sedition, Subversion, and Sabotage 09.11.2022

Self-explanatory. Based on the book "Sedition, Subversion, and Sabotage" by Ben Stone.

Agora #62: The Road to Autonomy 01.11.2022

Silas Soule and Jackie Kerouac from The Road to Autonomy Magazine (https://rtamagazine.com/) join us to talk about the magazine, the origin of their project, nomadic ways of living and making a living, planting seeds, and possible downsides of and hazards of mass public gardening.

Agora #61: October Q&A 23.10.2022

Join the fellas, along with Dagorist, Rae, and jerky merchant BJ, for a long discussion on Sovereign Citizens, guerilla gardening, and plants generally. Get a taste of our Patreon Q&A content, where you can become a patron and participate yourself.

Agora #60: A Secret Third Thing 13.10.2022

The guys discuss a bevy of topics, including the Left's embrace of centralization, social democracy, the failures of progressive liberalism, the rise of nationalist populism and potentially fascist-adjacent governments, neo-reaction, and the aesthetics of "woke" neoliberalism. A real banger of an episode ...

Agora #59: Food Panel 22.09.2022

Our full panel discussion on the topic, "Food as a Weapon" discussing the intersection of food and liberation. Hosted by Sek McGora. Featuring Penguin, Rae from the Let's Make Some Shit podcast, Shane from The Vonu Podcast, Keith McHenry from Food Not Bombs, author nutrition advocate BJ Woods, Brian and Ellen Sovryn, and friend-of-the-pod Djoom.

Unlocked: Sek's Shorts -- Guerilla Gardening 21.09.2022

Sek narrates a short explanation of guerilla gardening -- something anyone can try

Agora #58: Gary Chartier 20.09.2022

The legendary anarchist writer and intellectual Gary Chartier joins us to talk about market anarchism, the preference for non-hierarchical organizations, social change and revolution, the viability of commons-based production, and the importance of the market form.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part VIII 15.09.2022

Part VIII of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae. This audio file includes the entirety of the fourth chapter.

Unlocked: Renzo Novatore's "Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution" 14.09.2022

Sek McGora reads the short piece "Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution" by the Italian anarchist writer and poet, Renzo Novatore.

Agora #57: Gonzo 12.09.2022

Gonzo, homesteader extraordinaire, joins us to talk about: homesteading strategies; modular homesteading; recycling, reusing, and improvising; building mobile fixtures; raising different types of birds, and a lot more. Another great episode in our series on practical homesteading and farmsteading.

Kevin Carson's "The Homebrew Industrial Revolution" Part VII 06.09.2022

Part VII of Carson's important work, featuring friend-of-the-show Rae.  This audio file includes the third chapter, Section F.

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