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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Compendium: Democracy and the Council State (Pt. III of III)
There are a number of potential disadvantages that may arise while conducting any serious implementation of Councilor governance. Council Democracy, despite overcoming much of the shortcomings with Parliamentary Democracy, still has its own set of disadvantages to offset. These disadvantages… Read More ›
Compendium: Democracy and the Council State (Pt. II of III)
It is a common misconception by Liberal Capitalists to accuse Council Democracy of promoting “Democratic Backsliding” or “Illiberal Democracy.” Claiming to wield a virtual monopoly on Democracy as a political concept in the economic sense, they perceive any deviation from… Read More ›
Compendium: Kapital and its Subversion of Culture
Kapital is capable of distorting perceptions, value-judgments and decision-making processes. Its effects have been studied by psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, military-industrial and labor relations scholars, anthropologists, and other non-economic and non-financial fields. All of them can be influenced by the… Read More ›
Compendium: Theories of Value (Pt. I of II)
Is the Value of a good or service determined by the value-judgments and attitudes of the beholder? Or is the Value not informed by anyone in particular and can be measured objectively? Assuming if the Value can be judged intrinsically,… Read More ›
Compendium: Democracy and the Council State (Pt. I of III)
Economic participation and political participation are closely intertwined with each other. It has been established in earlier entries of the SMP Compendium that the State should be proactive in the nation-state’s economic and financial sectors. The goal has always been… Read More ›
Compendium: ‘Death-by-Overwork’, the Work-Standard’s Version of Hyperinflation
Various historical events have been cited by historians and economists alike as providing definitive examples of Hyperinflation. Weimar Germany, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, and Venezuela have been cited as contemporary examples in the past century alone. These examples are well-known cases where… Read More ›
Compendium: A Critique of Labour Vouchers and Time-Based Currencies
The Work-Standard was never designed to be operating according to the paradigms of Labour Vouchers and Time-Based Currencies. Both pseudo-currencies were developed as products of Utopian Socialist endeavors by people like Robert Owen and Josiah Warren at the height of… Read More ›
Compendium: CMEA’s Fixed Exchange Rates and its Hard Currency Shops
There are no doubts whatsoever that the demise of the Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union by extension came as a direct result of the death of Bretton Woods. While the Western Bloc and the United States opted for… Read More ›
Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism (Part IV of IV)
The Spenglerian association of Prussia with Socialism, as paradoxical as it may seem to most people, does have an historical basis. The history surrounding this association is unfortunately too obscure, even though a Prussian origin can be discerned in the… Read More ›
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