Sunday, April 12, 2020
Disunion
Leopold Kohr (1909-1994), The Breakdown of Nations (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978), p. 56:
Newer› ‹Older
The League of Nations was the product of World War I, and the United Nations of World War II. None of these glorified vast-scale organizations was ever worth its price, and it makes one shudder to think of the price of an ultimate single World state.Id., p. 57:
Having seen where the unifiers have brought us—nowhere—let us apply the philosophy of the size theory and see what solution the opposite direction might hold for us. Instead of union, let us have disunion now. Instead of fusing the small, let us dismember the big. Instead of creating fewer and larger states, let us create more and smaller ones.
