Anti-Fascist (Antifa) Fallacies: A Primer for Businesses

This exploratory article is intended to inform the business community about Antifa (anti-fascists); the analysis of Antifa is in three parts: (1) conduct a literature review to provide a better understanding of Capitalism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism, and Nazism; (2) describe Antifa’s core beliefs per an interview and literature review, and (3) provide insights and recommendations to business owners. This research focused narrowly on American Antifa seeking to better understand why most of the world is transitioning from socialism to capitalism, yet Antifa wants to eliminate capitalism. This exploratory research focuses on applied economics as related to violent threats against businesses

Poor Management Policies and Practices by U.S. Politicians Destroyed a Superpower

The Chinese ‘Three Warfares’(3W) strategy incorporates media or public opinion warfare, legal warfare, and psychological warfare. The 3W has evolved into a pursuit of ‘intelligentized warfare’ that aims to directly control the will of the highest decision-makers. This paper is focused on a DIMEFIL analysis of the United States to identify why and when the United States’ highest decision-makers surrendered its superpower status, without the Chinese firing one shot. This analysis of America’s National Instruments of Power serves as a wake-up call for the American people and business owners. The study concludes that the greatest threat to the United States is our American leaders’ arrogance and stupidity, as expressed in poor management, bad policies, and often incompetent practices

Chávez’s Bolivarian Republic Viewed With a Quality Lens

This research looks at Venezuela using project and quality parameters of excellence with discussion on the practical implementation, success, or failures from a project and quality management perspective. For context, the introduction covers key Venezuelan leaders who preceded Chávez; the literature review dives deeper into the Bolivarian 21st Century Socialist experiment with foci upon measurable outcomes of key policies. The paper concludes with a theoretical assessment model with recommendations for future research focused upon project and quality assessments, not mere politics. The quality model and associated research questions will assist government and multinational corporation researchers, as well as students of international business to conduct grounded, fact-based assessments

Johnson v. Davis, 480 So. 2d 625 (Fla. 1985)

Real Property-SELLERS\u27 LIABILITY FOR NONDISCLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY DEFECT

Killing Small Businesses – A Covid Case Study

There is not enough research existing in the field of government overreach within the United States. The focus of this exploratory case study is on applied management as well as theory development within academia, that supports small businesses against governmental abuse. This case study initially focuses on the C&C Café, which was shut down by government bureaucrats, and then explores government over-reach due to COVID-19 that occurred throughout major American cities from a small-business perspective during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude that small business owners must unite to fight against authoritarian governmental overreach to maintain our health, civil liberties, and economic viability

Power, Leadership and Culture as Drivers of Project Management

Leadership theory and practices existed long before Project Management became an academic discipline or theory, however little theoretical research existed regarding leadership practices as drivers of project management results. The focus of this research is on theory development within academia, that supports or refutes leadership as a catalyst or driver of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) functional areas. The result of this grounded-theory approach is validation and modification of leadership criteria listed in the PMBOK and a proposed meta-model for inclusion using a Be-Know-Do construct of leadership traits, knowledge and actions, and potential impact of culture upon projects

Evolution of Anti-Slavery Sentiments From 1776 to 1865 & a Critique of Reparations

Slavery existed in pre-modern societies throughout the world. While enslaving other peoples in most civilizations was legal, only Western civilization developed a moral revulsion against it. Therefore, the United States dialogue about slavery and reparations should focus on recognizing the 4000 years of slavery that ended through the efforts of abolitionists and their allies. The American abolitionist movement was fueled by a diverse group of individuals, including Quaker abolitionists, women’s rights activists, and influential figures like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Martin Delany. The moral and political philosophies of Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Hegel also influenced the abolitionist movement with ideas about the inherent worth and dignity of human beings, individual liberty, and freedom, shaping the abolitionist movement’s vision of a future without slavery. This led to a Civil War which was the catalyst for ratifying a U.S. Constitutional Amendment in 1865 that eliminated slavery nationwide. In 2019, discussions resurfaced about reparations for slavery, raising questions about justice, individual responsibility, and the potential impact on social cohesion

Systemic Poverty, Not Systemic Racism: An Ethnography, Analysis & Critique

This paper describes the lives of two light-skinned brothers raised in a Black neighborhood in 1960s-70s Chicago, highlighting the impact of social and economic factors on individual trajectories. The research then segues into the concept of “systemic poverty” recognizing that 10-20% of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians are in poverty creating concerns of disparities in education, health, housing, hiring practices, possible voter suppression, wealth gaps, media representation, environmental, employment, and criminal justice. Using grounded theory, the research develops a model based on the causes and effects of systemic poverty, critiques the logical flaws of systemic racism, and calls for greater recognition and support for poor Americans of all races, as well as a national conversation on poverty and inequality that includes all marginalized communities

Higher Education & Systemic Racism Hyperbole

This research challenges the unfounded theory of systemic racism that is treated as truth by the American media in 2023. I argue that Critical Race theory (CRT) and systemic race theory (SRT) are based predominantly upon opinion and anecdotes while being devoid of substantive supporting facts in contrast to true systemic racism, discrimination, and oppression demonstrated by NAZIs against Jews in the last century. ‘Income by Race’ and ‘Murders by Race’ present two critical data points that refute the theory that the United States is inherently racist and Blacks are oppressed in 2023. We argue that CRT/SRT paradigms are often based on correlation that is devoid of causal relationships. This exploratory research contributes to the growing Critical White Studies (CWS) field by exposing false narratives and anti-White propaganda. It provides a grounded-theory analysis for use by business leaders; and is intended as a wake-up call for free speech in academia

White-Trash Autoethnography: An Analysis of CRT Fact and Logic Flaws

This autoethnography represents a strong counternarrative to the fiction that society tells about Whitetrash (a.k.a. poor whites in the bottom income quintile). The stories told about White-trash males in school and society wrongly reflect a master narrative that portrays these students as lazy, incompetent, low class, or low-intellectual individuals who care very little about education. My counternarrative challenges this portrayal by highlighting personal struggles to move ahead despite the racism and discrimination directed against a White-trash male within a public school system that is located within a predominantly black neighborhood. This research continues with analysis of critical race theory’s fact and logic-flaws; and it concludes with calls for action against discrimination. This paper expands discourse in critical white studies by addressing preconceptions that marginalize white-trash people, which is a legitimate and necessary function of academic discourse