Just as Technology is an art requiring creativity and ingenuity, so it too does it pave the way for political-economic change. The conditions of Total Mobilization compel the need to alter the conception of the nation-state as a Western polity…. Read More ›
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The Deconstruction of American Conservatism
Prior to the presidency of Donald Trump, why is there always something defining American Conservatism instead of nothing? Why believe that American Conservatism is somehow immune to a Heideggerian “Lichtung” (Clearing) that wipes the slate clean of its preconceived perceptions… Read More ›
Compendium: Why Vocations are the only Acceptable Source of Arbeit
All Arbeit contributed to the Life-Energy Reserve must originate from one of two sources: either Vocations synchronized with the VCS Economy or from Real Trade Agreements. Any Arbeit that does not come either or both will not be registered by… Read More ›
Ernst Jünger’s Der Arbeiter (Pt. IV of VII)
Technology continues to be the defining characteristic of the Arbeiter. It is what enables the Arbeiter to revolutionize the world. The other key trait is the arts, particularly how certain artforms are created and what can be considered an artform… Read More ›
“Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” and the Socialist Market Economy (SME) of the PRC: A Hamiltonian Federalist Analysis
Is the PRC a Socialist nation-state? Certainly, the CPC in Beijing is adamant about the PRC being Socialistic, to which this author is inclined to agree (even if my interpretations are more nuanced). The consensus outside the PRC, however, is… Read More ›
Compendium: Theories of Money (Pt. I of II)
Competing Theories of Money have proliferated in the Western world when the concept of Currency became grew increasingly important since the Renaissance. In addition to the Theories of Value that argued for different ways to determine how much something should… Read More ›
On the Validity of the Global Savings Glut (GSG)
Are there any discernible connections between the spiraling amounts of Schuld owned by billions of people and dozens of nation-states and the planetary-wide proliferation of Fiat Currencies since the death of Bretton Woods? This Blog has found convincing evidence to… Read More ›
Compendium: Supply-Side versus Demand-Side Economics and the Laffer Curve
It has often been claimed that a lower Taxation Rate can yield economic growth. The claim perpetuates like an Internet Meme over the past few decades due to the prevalence of “Supply-Side Economics.” As a macroeconomic theory from Liberal Capitalism,… Read More ›
Compendium: Soviet-Type Economic Planning (STEP) and the Formulas of its Accounting System
Soviet-Type Economic Planning (STEP) relies on its own methodology of calculating economic growth/contraction and the overall productivity of nation-states under Marxism-Leninism. Included in this methodology is a distinct accounting system and formulas. The accounting system is known as the “Material… Read More ›
Compendium: The “Paranoid Style” as a Jeffersonian Obstacle for Hamiltonian Federal Socialism
Anyone who has made serious contemplations about the return of Hamiltonianism as “Federal Socialism” must contend with the “Paranoid Style” identified by the American historian Richard Hofstadter. Written in the wake of conspiracy theories surrounding the rise of Barry Goldwater… Read More ›
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