Gavrilo Princip; Archduke Ferdinand leaving the Sarajevo City Hall; Gavrilo Princip arrested; Yalta Conference, February 1945; SFOR soldiers guard Sarajevo's Lateiner (a.k.a. Princip) Bridge in 1999.
Defense of Liberty: Attila In a Boeing
This week, let's look into the libertarian theory on the subject.
Gavrilo Princip; Archduke Ferdinand leaving the Sarajevo City Hall; Gavrilo Princip arrested; Yalta Conference, February 1945; SFOR soldiers guard Sarajevo's Lateiner (a.k.a. Princip) Bridge in 1999.
It's true that there's been a lot of violence attached to the idea of national self-determination in the 20th Century. It's also impossible to satisfy everyone's desire for a state of one's own. But I would point out that the empires that the nationalists were in revolt against were themselves oppressive usurpers.
The article raises a lot of questions. If laws have to be made and taxes have to be collected (assumptions the author would reject, but that should be considered), isn't it better that they be collected locally? Won't localities know better what people want? What about the secession-mania of the rockwellites? What about the basic assumptions of the author? There are plenty of people who rightly or wrongly call rights-based individualism into question. One can imagine them applying a similar analysis to the author's own assumptions of individual sovereignty. What kind of world does the author envision? Is the world of sovereign individuals ultimately a world without cultural differences? Is it itself an "empire"?