World War I dissolved the public-private boundary that protected capitalist property

Evidence

In the course of the war, the sacred nature of private property across borders was ­violated; the space of the private cap­i­tal­ist was desecrated. Private accounts ­were now part of state knowledge, rendered as inputs into a comprehensive plan for allocating the nation’s resources. Nowhere was the collapse of the division between public and private more catastrophic than in the sites of successful socialist revolutions: the Soviet Union in 1917, the Bavarian Soviet republic of 1918, and the Hungarian revolution ­under Bela Kun. But the era ­after the First World War saw everywhere a ­great exposure of corporate secrets—­business had to be made vis­i­ble, and for its own good. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 112

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the theme of ‘corporate secrecy’ later explored in Bernays/PR history and the rise of corporate image management as a response to forced visibility. — connects to: Modern capitalism created two overlapping worlds of territorial states and dispersed private property. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 50; Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 149; State control of labor made capitalist surplus extraction explicitly political during the war — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 186 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 149
• WWI’s state economic control revealed the economy’s inherent political nature #corroborates (0.90)
• State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• State control of labor made capitalist surplus extraction explicitly political during the war #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 186
• State intervention during wartime made capitalist exploitation overtly political and vulnerable to resistance #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• Government wartime economic policy revealed state as instrument of class domination #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 204