The paper reviews the history of social activities effectuated by both the independentist and unificationist camps in the past decades in terms of theorization and criteria established from new social movements. It argues that those social activities are of the nature of social anti-movement. Carried out halfheartedly, those activities were only showpieces and gestures in service of their respective stateist agenda. Judging from the paranoid reactions of both camps toward the discourse on ”the second republic”, the paper futher identifies the structure of common-interests and accomplice-relationships shared by both the independentists and the unificationists, as self-aspired power-seekers as well as self-assigned future ruling elite. To break away from such predicaments, the paper suggests the possibility of an alternative reading and voicing of ”the second republic” idea, from the perspective of societal self-defense and from praxis of genuine social movem-nets.