The People's Republic of Walmart
How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

For simplicity's sake I'm simply gonna split the book review in two: +) I love the cover so much and would advise you purchase it just to have it. The texture of the cover is also quite sensuous; most Monthly Review books have a similarly spongy feel. It contains very useful categories. Envisioning fi......more

Better than I expected! The title - and some pre-release press - made me think this would be a superficial examination of Walmart and Amazon's efficiencies that didn't grapple with the extractive and exploitative means they used to achieve them. But it's actually an accessible history of economic pl......more

I thought this was a good introductory overview of problems of planning. One thing I kept thinking while reading the book is that it focuses a lot on the enormous scale of Walmart/Amazon as a sort of obvious proof that there is something efficient about the way it uses logistics. This is then counte......more

This book is a clear, well researched, and timely intervention into the debate around left wing economics that has made such a resurgence in recent years. Socialism is not a simple moral alignment, it is not a value set, it is a distinct proposal for the organisation of production. From Marx onwards,......more

Typical of the left-accelerationist approach. It shares a lot of the same technological and economic assumptions as Inventing the Future by Srnicek and Williams -- which is not a good thing.......more