- “ Marxists will likely find that life in our centrally-managed military compound is incompatible with their ideology. ” Eric Lach, “ ‘ Liberty-Driven ’ Fortress Community Being Planned in Idaho, ” TPM, January 14, 2013, http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ liberty-driven-fortress-community-being-planned-in-idaho.
- Roger O. Friedland, “ Money, Sex and God: The Erotic Logics of Religious Nationalism, ” Sociological Theory 20 (2002): 381 – 425.
- Robert MacBride, The Automated State: Computer Systems as a New Force in Society (Philadelphia: Chilton Book, 1967); Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologica (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013; originally published 1964); and Thomas Wells, “ The Robot Economy and the Crisis of Capitalism: Why We Need Universal Basic Income, ” ABC Religion and Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), July 17, 2014, http://www.abc.net.au/religion/ articles/2014/07/17/4048180.htm.
- Srnicek and Williams ’ book Inventing the Future would hold one end of this spectrum, whil Evgeny Morozov ’ s “ The Planning Machine ” would fix the other. See http://www.newyorker.com/ magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine.
- McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (London: Verso, 2015); Benedict Singleton, “ Maximum Jailbreak, ” e-flux, July 27, 2013, http://www.e-flux.com/journal/ maximum-jailbreak/.
- Friedrich A. von Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 2:107 – 132.
- “ If Wal-Mart instituted, say, a zero-tolerance policy against developing-world factories abusing their workforces, and simultaneously brought in a regime of unannounced factory inspections combined with anonymous, off-site interviews with workers, it would probably do more to change the working conditions in Third World sweatshops than any government on the planet. That, though, is the problem. Wal-Mart stretches far beyond the reach of any government. ” John Lanchester, “ The Price of Pickles, ” London Review of Books, June 22, 2006, 3 – 6, http://www.lrb .co.uk/v28/n12/john-lanchester/the-price-of-pickles.
- Walmart ’ s customers, demographic analysis may suggest, do not have the same degree of access to e-commerce infrastructure, from home PCs to broadband service. Still, the current discrepancy of total revenue between Amazon (about \$50 billion a year) and Walmart (about \$450 billion) suggests any major shift is still to come.
- That chagrin comes through in financial press articles such as these, http://www.fool.com/ investing/general/2015/02/04/amazon-just-admitted-that-its-losing-billions.aspx.
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