When Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, died in 1992, he bequeathed to a world that had just recently vanquished communism a retailing behemoth the likes of which had never before been seen. His stores, connected to an outsourced, globalized supply chain and linked via the nascent information superhighway to corporate headquarters in Bentonville,
Why Karl Marx Would Have Loved Walmart
Far from being the “end of history,” the present — and the unsustainable mode of production underlying it — is rife with leftist possibilities.