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You could give The People's Republic of Walmart a read. Full disclosure, I haven't read it, I've just read/listened to media talking about it. > For the left a
by enragedcacti 5y ago
You could give The People's Republic of Walmart a read. Full disclosure, I haven't read it, I've just read/listened to media talking about it.
> For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us?
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Republic-Walmart-Corporations-Foundation/dp/178663516X https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Republic-Walmart-Corporations...