Most of the grand narratives surrounding the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict are all questions pertaining to the national sovereignty of the Ukraine. The official position of Post-Soviet Russia is that Ukraine is allegedly run by Ukrainian ultranationalists who at one point… Read More ›
German Reich
Update (7 July 2022)
Yesterday had left me so preoccupied that I was never able to commit anything to the Blog like another post or two. There are not that many personal articles penned by Julius Krein which warranted enough attention to be commented… Read More ›
Logistical Complications: Seamines and Rail Gauges
Last night, while looking for interesting articles worthy of mention here, I came across a website called The Drive and a segment called “The Warzone.” Whereas The Drive is geared toward the automotive industry, “The Warzone” focuses on the historical… Read More ›
Karl Radek’s Critique of National Bolshevism
Bogumil, If there was something which binds the narratives of “Revolutionary People’s War or Counter-Revolutionary Civil War?” and Karl Radek’s subsequent critique, it would arguably be their discussions of 20th century geopolitics. My conclusion that the geopolitical conclusions of Laufenberg… Read More ›
Geopolitics of National Bolshevism (Response)
“It’s a bit pedantic, but ‘syndicalist’ tended to be used as a generic term by the Bolsheviks to describe any tendency which rejected the central role of the Communist Party. The council-communists who ended up in the KAPD didn’t use… Read More ›
Geopolitics of National Bolshevism
Bogumil, The idea that the KPD once had a Syndicalist faction among its ranks is something that I did not anticipate. I am also surprised to learn that the ousting of the Syndicalist faction helped contribute to the creation of… Read More ›
Reflections on Black ICE
As I had previously stated yesterday, I intended to write another post about my experiences of playing the Black ICE mod for HOI IV as Germany. Today, I will be sharing my observations here. The mod is ridiculously time-consuming; time… Read More ›
Replaying the Black Ice Mod
This Blog post is definitely going to be a brief one, so I will be cut to the chase and provide the fundamental details. I normally do not write posts about playing video games, but when I do, the experience… Read More ›
Oswald Spengler’s “On the German National Character”
Previously on The Fourth Estate, I had written a multi-part series of posts on Prussianism and Socialism, a long treatise that Oswald Spengler wrote in response to the poor performance of Germany’s “November Revolution.” For those who do not recall,… Read More ›
What was the “Uneven Alliance?” (Pt. II of II)
Bogumil, If I had not stressed this already, the latest ARPLAN Post feels like a culmination of the earlier ones on Pan-Germanic Socialism (PGS), including the power struggle to define what it is supposed to be. That power struggle is… Read More ›
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