The SMP Compendium generally envisages a practical application of the Work-Standard as the conversion of Arbeit into Geld and Geld into Arbeit. The terms ‘Arbeit’ and ‘Geld’ are derived from the German words for “Work” and “Money” respectively. The usage… Read More ›
Prussia
Compendium: Schuld
In the SMP Compendium, Schuld is a German word that has two etymological meanings, a legal one and a financial one. The financial meaning is commonly used to refer to “Debt,” which is the amount that an indebted borrower owes… Read More ›
Compendium: Financial Regime
The term ‘Financial Regime’ is used throughout the SMP Compendium to refer to the political forces in command of a nation-state’s monetary policies. A lot of confusion about how monetary policies are conducted and realized within conventional economics can be… Read More ›
Compendium: Project Cybersyn and Ernst Jünger’s ‘Phonophores’ and ‘Luminar’
It is generally agreed that the Internet and smartphones are ubiquitous aspects of everyday life in the early 21st century. Everyone uses the Internet to connect with others and everyone else browses on their smartphone when the opportunity arises. It… Read More ›
Compendium: Role of NSFIs within Work-Standard Economic Planning
National-Socialized Financial Instruments (NSFIs) are devised to not only to allow for a proper Socialist alternative to Financial Markets, but also overcome the well-known shortcomings of conventional types of economic planning. Their goal is to realize the conceptualization of an… Read More ›
Compendium: Types of Economic Organization
The Work-Standard is intended to operate under a Planned or Command Economy. For best results, the Planned or Command Economy in question is to operate according to the Vocational Civil Service (VCS) model of economic governance. The VCS model has… 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 ›
Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism (Part III of IV)
A large portion of Prussianism and Socialism was devoted to the “English instinct,” the term Spengler chose to describe Liberal Capitalism. Spengler specifically chose this term, just as he had also identified Socialism as being the “Prussian instinct,” because he… Read More ›
Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism (Part II of IV)
Prussia, as a political entity in the world, was dissolved by the Allied Powers in the opening stages of the Cold War. Its territorial claims by West Germany ceased in what can only be described as the Faustian bargain. Prussia… Read More ›
Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism (Part I of IV)
The proliferation of differing interpretations of Socialism after 1945 is indicative of a lack of awareness about its historical origins. Yes, there is the commonly-known association of the “Socialist Mode of Production” to “Scientific Socialism,” the interpretation of Karl Marx… Read More ›