Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
After years of pretending that Big Tech was good for "consumers," we've not only woken up to how destructive these companies are, but we're also all increasingly in accord about what to do about it. Hot damn!
Yes, the tech monopolies still have enormous power. But encouraging change is afoot. We just need a lot more of it.
It's no Marxist critique of class power--would that it were--but Matt Stoller's Goliath, aimed at moving the Democratic Party off dead center, slams all the right enemies in urging the resuscitating of the anti-monopoly tradition of the 20th century
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