The ideas from my last post grew out of a line of thought I’ve been running for a couple of weeks and alluded to a few times before. The gist is that capitalism and socialism/communism share a few core assumptions. They’re two varieties of industrialism. They came of age at the same time, with reference to [...]
Tagged as: capitalism, communism, economics, exindustrialism, ideology, industrialism, socialism
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by Brian on 03-28-2009
As part of the Earth Hour discussion, today’s Globe and Mail has a comment piece on computers and energy use that generated some insights into the relations between socialist and capitalist attitudes. The problem isn’t so much your computer, the greater concern is massive server farms that store and route the world’s information. According to [...]
Tagged as: capitalism, earth hour, ecoconscience, energy, enviromentalism, google, organizations, socialism
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by Brian on 11-30-2008
As I was reading about the radical cultural and organizational changes at Cisco (“Revolution in San Jose,” Fast Company, December/January), I found some great insights into my questions about how ‘socialist’ our large corporations tend to be. Regardless of their possible relevance to political-economic theory, the changes at Cisco are fascinating in and of themselves. Cisco was once the largest company [...]
Tagged as: capitalism, cisco, compensation, economics, markets, motivation, organizations, socialism, sociology
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Great insight from Matthew Yglesias: The thing about this is that if this were generally true — if the CEOs of the Fortune 500 were brilliant economic seers — then it would really make a lot of sense to implement socialism. Real socialism. Not progressive taxation to finance a mildly redistributive welfare state. But “let’s [...]
Tagged as: capitalism, organizations, socialism
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