During the early 1990s, as the world of the old Soviet Bloc was rapidly falling apart, the economist and historian Murray Rothbard saw it all for what it was: a trend of mass decentralization and secession unfolding before the world's eyes.
Again in 1993, Rothbard had to defend secession for "National" groups when in late 1992, the Czechoslovakian state began talking about breaking itself up into two countries.
Only a couple of years ago, Establishment opinion, Received Opinion of Left or Center, loudly proclaimed the importance of maintaining "The territorial integrity" of Yugoslavia, and bitterly denounced all secession movements.
Writing in September 1969, he frequently supported secession for the purpose of "National liberation," since "Aside from being a necessary condition to the achievement of justice, national liberation is the only solution to the great world problems of territorial disputes and oppressive national rule."
Rothbard supported the secession of Biafra from Nigeria in an editorial in 1970.
In 1977, he supported Quebecois nationalists, stating his hope that separatism and secession would lead to a "Domino principle" in which secession would breed even more secession.
If secession in the name of national liberation is bad, we end up on principle supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire or two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.
https://mises.org/wire/when-nationalism-fuels-decentralization-and-secession-lessons-cold-war
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