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The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Michal Rozworski, Leigh Phillips
Neat book promoting the premise of how socialist-style planning is not only possible, but used quite a bit within the boundaries of increasingly-large and complex firms. The kind of book that hops between a bunch of different topics and aspects, and I’m not sure it’s served well by the particular order they chose. I might have instead re-arranged it as a history of planning, at the risk of putting some of the more remote Russian Revolution stuff at the beginning instead of front-loading it with Walmart/Amazon as they do here.
Still, plenty of valuable material here and it’s pretty accessible to audiences. Spent the entire book wondering why they weren’t mentioning Cybersyn, and then was pleased when it made up a chapter towards the end. No index or footnotes or bibliography makes it tough to follow up on interesting topics, though!
Still, plenty of valuable material here and it’s pretty accessible to audiences. Spent the entire book wondering why they weren’t mentioning Cybersyn, and then was pleased when it made up a chapter towards the end. No index or footnotes or bibliography makes it tough to follow up on interesting topics, though!