The 2021 GameStop bubble has become one of the most discussed financial events of the digital era. What began as a sharp rise in the stock price of a struggling video game retailer turned into a global episode of retail investor mobilization, platform-driven visibility, financial controversy, and academic debate. The event was not only about valuation, speculation, or short-selling. It also revealed how digital communities can organize collective economic action in ways that

Smedley D. Butler’s War Is a Racket  remains one of the most provocative short critiques of modern political economy. Written in the interwar period, the book argued that war often serves organized economic interests more than public welfare. Although the text emerged from a different historical environment, its central claim has regained relevance in a century marked by financialized capitalism, global defence supply chains, digital surveillance, platform infrastructures, an