Earlier this year, the ARPLAN Blog was set to private, making all of the articles and my original comments there inaccessible. It is a shame it had to happen that way because a lot of information was helpful in articulating, among other things, this Blog and its content. I made sure to preserve as much as I could on the Wayback Machine, however I cannot guarantee that everything was saved. The fact that I have since lost contact with Bogumil in the past year or two does not help either. The Fourth Estate was nowhere as popular as ARPLAN.org, but it did receive much of its traffic from it.
Granted, any comments which I had made there has been saved here because they were writings that I made which later formed the basis for something else that I would like to write. I also know which books that Bogumil that was planning to work on before I lost contact, one of which I stopped translating early on into the second Chapter. At the same time, I still have digital copies of National Bolshevik Manifesto and the Second Edition of Der nationale Sozialismus, the latter of which I did help Bogumil with translating one of its Chapters into English. After all, Der nationale Sozialismus (2nd Ed.) is such an important landmark book for Pan-Germanic Socialism that I would be remiss to not overstate that it offers a glimpse into what Pan-Germanic Socialism was like to Hitlerism and everything that had happened between 1933 and 1945.
I myself have been looking for some way of preserving The Fourth Estate in case, for whatever reason, this Blog were to disappear. So much invaluable information, much of which locked behind paywalls and academic databases, were collected and stored here. The problem is that Wayback Machine only saves things one page at a time, making any serious effort to preserve content time-consuming. I think the most important pieces of information to be kept for posterity are the four Treatises that I wrote regarding the Work-Standard.
It is about time that I come back to blogging. The challenge for me is moving on from the Work-Standard insofar and I have been debating with myself over whether to establish a new Blog or something. The most important question, after five years, is whether or not there is anything new which is of relevance to the Work-Standard. After months of deliberation, I have concluded that the answer is no. Of course, it would be foolish of me to abandon this Blog and let everything herein disappear.
Therefore, I have decided to establish alternate Blogs for the purposes of posting things that are not relevant to the Work-Standard. The Fourth Estate might serve as a central hub of sorts inasmuch as the Work-Standard itself functions as a throughline into such forays. I will have to write another post in order to do so.
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