Re "the advertiser boycotts amounted to gross economic irrationality": If the socialist press were advocating nationalisation of private companies it wouldn't be "irrational" of said companies to boycott the papers.
Apart from that quibble it was an interesting review. Spain was an important centre for anarcho-syndicalism and the Spanish co-op model he approves of sounds like it was influenced by that tradition. We desperately need people who can think outside the box as the mainstream politicians aren't tackling the public's concerns; that's because they don't have a clue how to get us out of the mess they created.