Seceding

Threatening secession

Description

Seceding involves the deliberate withdrawal of an individual, group, or region from a larger political, organizational, or social entity to establish autonomy or independence. This strategy is typically employed to remedy grievances such as lack of representation, cultural suppression, or resource mismanagement. By forming a separate entity, seceding aims to enable self-determination, improve governance, and address specific needs or injustices that are inadequately resolved within the existing structure.

Claim

The nation-state is obsolete and even dangerous. Groups of people should be allowed to secede from their existing nations and form their own local political units, based on whatever values they prefer, mediated perhaps by several single-purpose world government agencies (arms control, environment, etc). The right of free secession might thus supersede economic principles of free markets, free trade and other past freedoms in providing a founding principle for a postmodern economic order.