meanstoakenz 's review for:

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Michal Rozworski, Leigh Phillips

2.5

medium-paced

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An interesting first 100 or so pages, with good anecdotes and humorous writing style, even if a bit surface level of an analysis at times. I expected something a bit more nitty-gritty regarding the operations of National and multinational corporations like Walmart and Amazon, but instead, the book starts going into detailed, yet shallow, historical descriptions of the UK’s NHS, the Soviet Union, and Chile, taking quite a while to remember why they were talking about the subject in the first place. It feels like this could have been a pamphlet but got stretched to nearly 250 pages.