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

Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism?

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 o...