There was something that caught my attention over the course completing The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) in the previous month. It has now been four months since Bogumil posted something on ARPLAN. A message was sent to that Blog on my… Read More ›
Economics
Update (2 August 2023)
With The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) finished, I now have some time to take care of errands outside of the Blog. So far, I have yet to figure out what I am going to write about next, and I have intentions… Read More ›
Thoughts on “Financial Warfare”
A few Entries in Section Seven of The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) retained a notable topic originally introduced in the First Edition and kept in the Second Edition. I am of course referring to the concept of “Financial Warfare,” the idea… Read More ›
Update (31 July 2023)
For the first time ever in the history of The Fourth Estate, I have posted at least one in every day of a month. I had been trying to achieve that goal for some time now, but never found the… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: The Internet, the Y2K Bug, and the Work-Standard’s Mechanization Rate
Information technologies grew up alongside nuclear technologies in the wake of the Second World War. The most obvious example of their pervasive importance is of course the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is the digital medium that everyone uses… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Technology and the War Effort (Pt. I of III)
War is politics. The Military-Industrial Complex is one of the products from the State of Total Mobilization. When it became apparent that industrialization had military implications, nations began to field massive armies and navies from the 19th century onward. The early… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Technology and the War Effort (Pt. II of III)
On a Russian State cultural media website, there was an article about the Soviet Ruble that featured a Josef Stalin quote which reads: “If a Socialist country pegs its Currency to a Liberal Capitalist Currency, then this Socialist country must forget… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Technology and the War Effort (Pt. III of III)
“Free to Choose?” “[Economic] Socialization does not mean nationalization by expropriation or theft. It is not all concerned with nominal property, but rather with the techniques of administration. Buying up industries right and left for the sake of some slogan,… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Introduction to the Art of Technology
Another variation of the Political Organization Problem pertains to Technology affecting how various artforms are conducted and how people discuss and critique them. Life imitates art, it is often said, and the type of Total Mobilization being employed affects the artforms in… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: The Tactical Logic of Technology
The Art of Socialist Finance cannot be conveyed in a massive book of rules and regulations like a “~70,000-page Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tax Code.” The styles which govern Socialist Finance are to be applied in accordance with present-day economic… Read More ›
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