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The kolkhozes were not owned by the state in the Soviet Union. State-owned enterprises represent about 20% of total employment in China. Ownership is simply con
by xtian 3y ago
The kolkhozes were not owned by the state in the Soviet Union. State-owned enterprises represent about 20% of total employment in China. Ownership is simply contingent and limited according to determinate social ends (as opposed to the total anarchy of the market in classical capitalism), but the same is true of every modern economy in the world.
As you say, the difference is whose interests dictate these ends: those of ordinary citizens or those of the monopolies and international finance.
- vorpalhex 3y ago92% of China's top 500 companies have major CCP board ownership. https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/influence-without-ownership-chinese-communist-party-targets-private-sector https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/influence-w...
- xtian 3y agoWhat percent of boards in the US are staffed by Democrats and Republicans (our one party with two names)?
- vorpalhex 3y agoCCP party membership is 6.7% of the population. It is restricted and a point of honor and power to be a party member. 6.7% of the country runs 92% of the boardrooms.
- xtian 3y agoSo no answer to my question. In the US can anyone be a corporate board member? Or is it gated by myriad social factors such as having attended an elite B school and proving yourself as a loyal servant of Wall Street bankers?
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago> our one party with two names ... If you're not a woman, gay, trans, black, poor, ...
- xtian 3y agoDo you not live in the US or what?