The term “Economic Foreignization (EF)” was introduced in The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.) to describe a phenomenon that often occurs as part of Real Trade Agreements (RTAs). When the Council State agrees to the terms of an RTA that it has… Read More ›
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The Third Place: On Heroic Realism
“Heroic Realism” refers to a type of artwork that rose to prominence in the early 20th century. Its aesthetics can be easily distinguished from other contemporary artworks, especially those from the period, through the ability to convey lifelike paintings to… Read More ›
The Third Place: The Shopping Mall and American Suburbia
The rise of American Suburbia after 1945 saw a significant number of Americans moving away from the cities and into emerging communities of single-family homes. The automobile allowed millions to live in American Suburbia, commute to their workspaces in the… Read More ›
The Third Place: On Citizenship
The concept of “Citizenship” undergoes a transformation in the third Mode of Production. In the preceding Entry, I mentioned that Citizenship is not conferred until the Self begins their secondary education. This is an important one because, prior to the… Read More ›
The Third Place: Youth Countercultures and Student Economies
The State of Total Mobilization has set the precedent for practically anything to be done on a massive scale. Scores of people can now participate in any given movement and agitate for political-economic changes. Here, the concept of “revolution” takes… Read More ›
Suburban Housing vs. Settlement Housing
Bogumil, As an American, I would like to bring something to your attention regarding the housing policy of the German Reich. In preceding ARPLAN posts concerning the NSDAP, there were proposals being forward on how to alleviate the housing shortage… Read More ›
The world at war – again
It is 83 years this weekend since Europe crashed into war, beginning a global struggle that did not end until 1945 and which resulted in estimated deaths topping 75 million, many of them civilians. The Second World War was the… Read More ›
“Learning to Love the New Reich”
Bogumil, You made an important discovery regarding how the trade union movement reacted to the rise of the Hitlerists from 1933 onwards. As I had suspected as far back as “National Socialists against Capitalism,” I became convinced that the Hitlerist… Read More ›
On The Work-Standard’s “Modes of Production”
To begin, I am sharing two relevant posts that I had made last year. The posts in question are the “Six Alls of Total Mobilization of Production for Profit” and “Quality of Arbeit vs. Quantity of Kapital.” Some of my… Read More ›
Conservative Socialism: On Cold War-era Latin America in “China: Mao’s Legacy”
In the latter half of the Second World War, the “Cold War,” Latin America bore witness to proxy wars, civil wars, and revolutions by the Jeffersonians and the Soviets, who sought to gain influence among the continent’s nations. All notions… Read More ›
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