In Part I of “Post-Cold War Legal Ambiguities,” I sought to put forward the argument that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine should be reinterpreted with a broader historical perspective in mind. One aspect concerns the implication that Russia is seeking… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Similar to Hong Kong, Singapore’s economic history was shaped by its former status as a British colony. The city-state once dubbed by Winston Churchill as the “Gibraltar of the East” came into being as another entrepôt for the British Empire…. Read More ›
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 ›
“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 ›
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 ›
As part of my attempts to reorient the focus of The Fourth Estate, I felt it is now time to spread news about some video games that I have been playing for years. For those who do not know, the… Read More ›
“The cameralists of the books, as distinguished from the cameralists of the bureaus, although the former class was usually recruited from the latter, were the men who worked out for publication, and especially for pedagogical purposes, the system of procedure… Read More ›
Today, I am beginning my readings of a textbook-length tome by the famed American sociologist Albion Woodbury Small, entitled, The Cameralists. It is understandable for readers of The Fourth Estate to not know who Small was the founder of the… Read More ›
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