There was something that caught my attention over the course completing The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) in the previous month. It has now been four months since Bogumil posted something on ARPLAN. A message was sent to that Blog on my… Read More ›
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Update (2 August 2023)
With The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) finished, I now have some time to take care of errands outside of the Blog. So far, I have yet to figure out what I am going to write about next, and I have intentions… Read More ›
Thoughts on “Financial Warfare”
A few Entries in Section Seven of The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) retained a notable topic originally introduced in the First Edition and kept in the Second Edition. I am of course referring to the concept of “Financial Warfare,” the idea… Read More ›
Update (31 July 2023)
For the first time ever in the history of The Fourth Estate, I have posted at least one in every day of a month. I had been trying to achieve that goal for some time now, but never found the… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Technology and the War Effort (Pt. III of III)
“Free to Choose?” “[Economic] Socialization does not mean nationalization by expropriation or theft. It is not all concerned with nominal property, but rather with the techniques of administration. Buying up industries right and left for the sake of some slogan,… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Introduction to the Art of Technology
Another variation of the Political Organization Problem pertains to Technology affecting how various artforms are conducted and how people discuss and critique them. Life imitates art, it is often said, and the type of Total Mobilization being employed affects the artforms in… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: The Tactical Logic of Technology
The Art of Socialist Finance cannot be conveyed in a massive book of rules and regulations like a “~70,000-page Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tax Code.” The styles which govern Socialist Finance are to be applied in accordance with present-day economic… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: The Operational Logic of Technology
Previously, we explored the various possibilities where such technologies can be employed on a tactical level. Here, we will be exploring those same technologies at an operational level. The Art of Socialist Finance requires its own Socialist Fintech in the… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: The Strategic Logic of Technology
As we ascend the command structure of the Socialist Nation, everything becomes more generalized and more broadly defined upon arriving at the Council State itself. What keeps the Council State cognizant of what is occurring in the nation and abroad… Read More ›
SMP Compendium: Artistic Creativity and Innovative Ingenuity with the Work-Standard
The Socialist Nation of the SMP Compendium, it should be mentioned, will never resemble anything like the Soviet Union, the CMEA/Warsaw Pact nations, or even the People’s Republic of China. Rather, it will be going above and beyond all of those countries,… Read More ›
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