nationalizer
Government takeover agent
A nationalizer is a person or government that transfers private assets to public ownership.
The term usually describes political actors who seize industries, utilities, or resources: The nationalizers targeted foreign-owned oil companies first.
It can also refer to advocates of such policies: Democratic nationalizers clashed with free-market conservatives.
Government taking private property
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- socializationInternalizing cultural norms
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- sequestrationAct of setting apart
requisition · takeover · appropriation · centralization · statism · interventionism · protectionism · autarky
Slippery viscous fluid
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- railwaysFixed-track transport systems
- utilitiesEssential infrastructure services
telecommunications · banking · steel · coal · energy · electricity · water · gas
Condition or mode
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- agencyPower to act
authority · public-sector · treasury · exchequer · cabinet · parliament · legislature · decree
Postwar British prime minister
Proponent of collective ownership
- communistCollectivist political adherent
- MarxistCommunist theory follower
- LeninistFollower of revolutionary communism
- Ba'athistArab socialist party member
Fabian · anti-capitalist · anti-imperialist · populist · revolutionary · reformist · progressive · collectivist
expropriation
Government taking private property
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- socializationInternalizing cultural norms
- confiscationSeizure by authority
sequestration · requisition · takeover · appropriation · centralization · statism · interventionism · protectionism · autarky · dirigisme
oil
Slippery viscous fluid
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- railwaysFixed-track transport systems
utilities · telecommunications · banking · steel · coal · energy · electricity · water · gas · airlines
state
Condition or mode
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- ministryClergy's work or state department
agency · authority · public-sector · treasury · exchequer · cabinet · parliament · legislature · decree · mandate
Attlee
Postwar British prime minister
socialist
Proponent of collective ownership
- communistCollectivist political adherent
- MarxistCommunist theory follower
- LeninistFollower of revolutionary communism
Ba'athist · Fabian · anti-capitalist · anti-imperialist · populist · revolutionary · reformist · progressive · collectivist · statist
nationalizerprivatizer
One who sells state assets
deregulator · free marketeer · free-marketeer · liberalizer · neoliberal
nationalizerprivatizer
One who sells state assets
capitalist · neoliberal · Thatcherite · Reaganite · libertarian
nationalize, nationalized, internationalize, nationalization, internationalized, renationalize, internationalizes, internationalization, denationalize