Translation: Diana Costea and Dan Cristian Comănescu
Original title: „Small is Beautiful and Efficient: The Case For Secession” în Telos, nr. 107, primăvara 1996, pp. 95-101 şi după "On the Law and Economics of Socialism and Desocialization", Cultural Dynamics, vol. 8, nr. 3, Nov. 1996, p. 323-332.
Translated into Romanian and e-published with the author's permission.
The constitution of liberty? In one word, private property. The (gradual) strategy of liberty? In one word, secession.
Professor Hoppe’s contributions (V. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism) and those of the authentic contemporary liberalism are to be read now - as always - as necessary comments and footnotes to the teaching of the ever relevant Mises.
„The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production (for in regards to commodities ready for consumption, private ownership is a matter of course and is not disputed even by the socialists and communists). All the other demands of liberalism result from this fundamental demand.”(Ludwig von Mises, "Property", Liberalism)
„However, the right of self-determination of which we speak is not the right of self-determination of nations, but rather the right of self-determination of the inhabitants of every territory large enough to form an independent administrative unit. If it were in any way possible to grant this right of self-determination to every individual person, it would have to be done.”(Ludwig von Mises, "The Right of Self-Determination", Liberalism)
The orthodox spirituality must accompany private property and secession; without it, the liberalism (and all good which remains only natural) resembles a headless rider. This implies secession from the entire sin, and if one wants to speak explicitly about a sounder future, this departure from sin begins with the denouncement of „public education”. Again, following the great Mises:
„There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.”(Ludwig von Mises, "The Political Foundations of Peace", Liberalism)
