This is a reply to Sean Gabb’s “Death to America?” at http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2016/01/22/death-to-america/.
Sean’s first three paragraphs are surpassingly brilliant. Indeed, when he says:
“every country that ever rose to greatness has combined tendencies to further progress and to disintegration. Until the very end, these forces have risen and fallen against each other.”
he has said all that needs to be said about world politics at the present epoch of top-down governments, nation-states and federations. Continue reading