Prussia
Is it Królewiec or Königsberg?
Four months ago, I mentioned the Kaliningrad Question in connection to my past correspondences with Bogumil from ARPLAN. At the time, I was talking about how the Russian government was going hysterical about an alleged “Germanization” of the Kaliningrad Oblast,… Read More ›
Fragment on English Whig Conceptions of History
Readers of The Fourth Estate may recall my own readings of Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism back in 2021.This pamphlet, which was meant to complement Volume II of The Decline of the West, essentially argued that Socialism did not originate… Read More ›
Update (26 January 2023)
Patience does have its benefits. After spending the past day pondering over how best to proceed with Part III of “On Prussian State Capitalism,” I am immediately reminded of my past playthroughs of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. There are… Read More ›
East Germany: Successor of Prussia?
Bogumil replied back to my comments regarding the latest post on ARPLAN. For the first message, he said that he wished me luck on my attempts to work on a major research paper. I am going to need it because… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Update (6 March 2022)
I hope everyone looking forward to what else I have to say regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine because that will be the next Blog post for tomorrow. I have other information related to the invasion which I feel should… Read More ›
Economic History Case Studies: The Work-Standard’s “Geldoperation”
It can be argued that The Work-Standard is in many respects an attempt at realizing what Johann Gottlieb Fichte described as the “Geldoperation” (Money Operation) within his philosophical book on Economic Planning, The Closed Commercial State. This book from the… Read More ›
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