Thanks for finding these Pine. Rothbard and Konkin were the two main inspirations for creating Silk Road, so it is interesting to see that they disagreed on some things. They both have the same ends: abolition of the state. However, they disagree on what the best path to get there is, and what the world will look like if we do. Regarding how labor will organize absent government controls, as I've mentioned in other posts, no one really knows, but I tend to side with Rothbard on this one, that organizations of different sizes would be optimal and have their place along side sole-proprietorships. Konkin cedes this point as unimportant in his reply anyway. The main difference I see in these essays is the means that should be pursued to bring about a free society. Konkin advocates agorism, while Rothbard advocates political action. In this case, I think Rothbard is out of touch with business, markets and the messy power struggle of the real world. He's an amazing economist, political scientist, and historian, but he's not a businessman or entrepreneur. Konkin is no where near the academic that Rothbard is, but his genius lies in his simple insights he called agorism and counter-economics. He saw that society is simply the aggregate of the billions of human to human interactions that go on daily and that the power of the state is derived from their control of those interactions. The more they control, the more powerful they are, the less they control, the less powerful they are and the more freedom individuals have. Simple. So, if you want to be free and remove your support from the state, stop engaging in interactions that they control as much as possible. Honestly I see no major problem with either approach that would make it unworthy of pursuit. Electing officials that will take steps to dismantle the state apparatus and give people more freedom is great. Break up and weaken that monopoly from the inside. At the same time, actively creating alternatives to it in the free market and making it easier for people to withdraw their support is also great, weaken it from the outside. Both have their pitfalls and drawbacks, and liberty is still only a dream we can work toward but may never obtain, but I hope that if these men were still alive and saw Silk Road, they would have hope for the future and agree that their views are compatible.