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, loc. 112