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We must promote the idea of secession. Or more specifically, we must promote the idea of a world composed of tens of thousands of distinct districts, regions, and cantons, and hundred of thousands of independent free cities such as the present day oddities of Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Greatly increased opportunities for economically motivated migration would thus result, and the world would be one of small [classically] liberal governments economically integrated through free trade and an international commodity money such as gold.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We must promote the idea of secession. Or more specifically, we must promote the idea of a world composed of tens of thousands of distinct districts, regions, and cantons, and hundred of thousands of independent free cities such as the present day oddities of Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Greatly increased opportunities for economically motivated migration would thus result, and the world would be one of small [classically] liberal governments economically integrated through free trade and an international commodity money such as gold." in the context of "Interview at quebecoislibre.org (7 December 2002)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

About Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 2 September 1949) was an Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist philosopher, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.