How did a country that despised private trade and private ownership manage to provide millions of people with everything they needed? Is it true that private business as such did not exist in the USSR? So, who, then, was behind… Read More ›
Month: April 2023
Scenario 1999: Arbeit begetting Arbeit (Pt. II of II)
Arbeit, it should be recalled, is contributed from the success completions of the production process and from the finalized conclusions of the transactional sale. But the production process cannot be restricted to just the mere act of creating Equipmentalities and… Read More ›
Three New Diagrams
I took some time yesterday to work on three diagrams that I intend to be using for The Digital Realm (1st Ed.). The following images are based on topics and concepts covered in Section Two, all of which are related… Read More ›
Update (17 April 2023)
Not sure if there are any Readers of The Fourth Estate disillusioned by Job Posting Websites and ATS software programs as this Author. Even by Liberal Capitalist standards, the same ones which also criticized the Planned/Command Economy, the processes by… Read More ›
The Rise of the Capital-state and Neo-nationalism: a Neo-Polanyian Perspective — Economic Sociology & Political Economy
We are living in the times of the populist nationalist challenge to the liberal order. This challenge comes in many forms, including reactionary and progressive ones – from Marine Le Pen’s Front National in France to Jobbik in Hungary, to Manuel López Obrador’s MORENA in Mexico… Read More ›
Scenario 1999: Arbeit begetting Arbeit (Pt. I of II)
The Administrators of State and Social Enterprises looking for highly qualified Students may be many and come from countless different Industries and Professions, but they are all looking for one very specific personality. They are looking for someone who knows… Read More ›
Update (16 April 2023)
My thought experiment from yesterday, where I revisited some important documents from my late childhood and early adolescence proved helpful in making sense of the current trajectory of the past few Scenario 1999 Entries. Allow me to summarize a list… Read More ›
A Thought Experiment from Childhood
“Nostalgia is the new opium of the masses in the 21st century.” One ought not to forever dwell in the past just to cope with the present. History is meant to provide oneself with the ability to reshape the future… Read More ›
Scenario 1999: Digitalizing Economic Organization Models
As stated previously in the preceding Entries, the digital realm is capable of yielding, on the one hand, the World Wide Web (WWW) and an opposing series of National Intranets connected to each other via an International Internet. To transplant… Read More ›
Update (15 April 2023)
“Die Nostalgie ist das neues Opium des Volkes im 21. Jahrhundert (Nostalgia is the new Opium of the masses in the 21st century).” Does one not realize that some of the more recent economic problems involving Technology originated from the… Read More ›
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