16 Top theory books like The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Phillips

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Similar categories in Peter Frase's Four Futures: Life After Capitalism book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"the path that leads to utopia is not necessarily itself utopian"

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

"… nature doesn’t care about us; it neither has interests nor desires, it simply exists."

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

"But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it."

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

"Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces."

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

Similar categories in Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Similar categories in Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

Similar categories in Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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Similar categories in Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Similar categories in Karl Marx's Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Similar categories in Friedrich Engels's The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Similar categories in Ellen Meiksins Wood's The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Similar categories in Terry Eagleton's Why Marx Was Right book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's What Is to Be Done? book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Similar categories in Friedrich Engels's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Similar categories in Yanis Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Similar categories in Vijay Prashad's Washington Bullets book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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Similar categories in Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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Similar categories in Aaron Bastani's Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"We have a world to win"

-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

Similar categories in Paul Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism book and Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

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"It is interesting how the advocates of social inequality think that the wealthy respond to quite different incentives from the poor. If the rich are to be persuaded to work, they require the stimulus…"

-Paul Cockshott, Towards a New Socialism

"Talk of equality of educational opportunity is hollow so long as hard economic reality reminds you that society considers you inferior. Beyond what it buys, pay is a symbol of social status; and a le…"

-Paul Cockshott, Towards a New Socialism