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Book Review: People's Republic of Walmart
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People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
(Verso, £9.99)
IGNORED both by conservatives obsessed with the “invisible hand” of the market and socialists caught up in the drama of challenging oppression, planning doesn’t elicit a passionate response.
But, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski explain in People’s Republic of Walmart, it is essential to innovation, complex projects and economic stability.
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