I tend to avoid wading into the Wal-Mart Wars, just because the aesthetic issues are so wound up with the economic ones that I find them hard to dissociate. Fortunately, Brad DeLong weighs offers up this useful guideline:
I suggest a convergence on a simple position: efficient production and distribution, good; using local monopoly power to sleaze and cheat your own workers, bad!
As for the documentary, I should probably watch it. I’m curious about the extent that the changes in leftism have brought a change in leftist documentary. Back in the day, a film like Hour of the Furnaces could strive for dialectical materialism by juxtaposing different social realities through montage. But what happens when you’re no longer dialectical in your thinking and not especially materialist in your historical reasoning?
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