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Perhaps, in some cases, monopolies should be publicly-owned, rather than private enterprise.
by johneth 6y ago
Perhaps, in some cases, monopolies should be publicly-owned, rather than private enterprise.
- Razengan 6y agoWasn’t that one of the premises of communist states, that the Land of the Free was supposed to avoid?
- doukdouk 6y agoState-owned monopolies exist in most capitalist countries, from operating prisons, to managing railroad or telecom infrastructure, to nuclear energy. The US may have fewer of those than say, the UK or France or Singapore, but I would not call those countries _communist_.
- nerdponx 6y agoNot really. Different communist states have had different goals at different times. For example, nobody here is proposing collectivized agriculture (collectivized compute programming?), or purges of people perceived to be members of the bourgeois class.
- input_sh 6y agoGod I wish at least 5% of people I see mentioning communism or socialism could properly define either of those terms.