Tonight, I will be revisiting what is now officially part of the historical record: the Iraq War and how the US handled the postwar reconstruction efforts. For an historical event in the 2000s, the Iraq War began with a rapid… Read More ›
Total Mobilization
Compendium: Wartime Preparations and the Work-Standard (Pt. II of III)
Council Democracy and the Causes of War Wars waged in any state of Total Mobilization are expensive, and the Totality is fully aware of this. Council Democracy, unlike Parliamentary Democracy, grants the Totality the chance to provide a unanimous or… Read More ›
Compendium: Wartime Preparations and the Work-Standard (Pt. I of III)
Role of Total Mobilization of Production for Dasein “Who says anyone can’t have fun in war?” That would be the motto of the Work-Standard because “war begets economy,” not the other way around. The “Total Mobilization of Production” always has… Read More ›
Update (14 September 2021)
I have decided to make slight adjustments to the Blog. The Fourth Estate’s homepage as well as the opening notations in the SMP Compendium should be edited, the text turned into a subpage under the “Fourth Estate?” webpage. Another decision… Read More ›
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 ›
Compendium: State, Totality, and Self
Throughout the SMP Compendium, there are six recurring terms that are intended to denote the specific sociological categories that exist within any nation adopting the Work-Standard. Those are the “Individual” or “Self,” the “Class” or “Estate,” the “People,” the “State,”… Read More ›
Compendium: Intent
Every conception of Currency operates according to a Command and Control (C2) Mechanism designed to coordinate a Unity of Command and a Unity of Effort. The Liberal Capitalist conception of Currency is referred to in the SMP Compendium as “Kapital.”… Read More ›
Update (2 September 2021)
With the relevant entries on international trade taken care of, all that remains in the ongoing efforts to complete the SMP Compendium are entries related to the “Important Terminology,” three important ones on how the Work-Standard operates during wartime, various… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Compendium: Total Mobilization of Production for Dasein
Entries related to Arbeit and Geld, Theory of Value, Theory of Money, VCS Economy and Economic Planning, Accounting and Taxation have all raised implications about the appearance of three key variables. Those are Work-Productivity (WP), Solidarity, and Economic Socialization. The… Read More ›
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