How? The same way that every shareholder in every company who owns shares of stock and has voting rights in that company does, even though the company is the legal owner.
The problem isn’t usually nationalization but the utter lack of democratic control of what is owned by the state.
The problem isn’t usually nationalization but the utter lack of democratic control of what is owned by the state
I’d say that before that your problem is that if a state has the power to nationalize something it also has the power to privatize it again… all it takes is one Reagan or Thatcher. Or hell, an Obama - who essentially nationalized General Motors after the 2008 crash and then handed it all straight back to the capitalists again.
How? The same way that every shareholder in every company who owns shares of stock and has voting rights in that company does, even though the company is the legal owner.
The problem isn’t usually nationalization but the utter lack of democratic control of what is owned by the state.
I’d say that before that your problem is that if a state has the power to nationalize something it also has the power to privatize it again… all it takes is one Reagan or Thatcher. Or hell, an Obama - who essentially nationalized General Motors after the 2008 crash and then handed it all straight back to the capitalists again.