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P·L·N·R

The Secessionist

private · decentralized · national · rupture

Libertarian capitalism

Get out from under the state entirely — on this ground, with these neighbours, and by force if the state comes to collect. Property is defended locally because no distant authority is legitimate enough to do it.


What the four letters mean

P Ownershipprivatenot collective (C)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
N Horizonnationalnot internationalist (I)
R Methodrupturenot gradual (G)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyMilitia libertarianism, sovereign-citizen currents, hard secession movements.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Secessionist is a box, and a box is a compression. It keeps the sign of each score and throws away the magnitude — so two people filed here can sit at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a cut line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. The lines drawn across them are a decision somebody made.

The point

Cutline will tell you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other sixteen-type system leaves out.

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