nationalizers
Government takeover advocates
Nationalizers are those who advocate for or carry out nationalization—the transfer of private industries or assets to government ownership.
The term usually appears in political and economic contexts: The nationalizers argued that utilities should serve the public, not shareholders.
It can be neutral or pejorative depending on the speaker's stance toward state control of industry.
Communal economic control
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- leftismPolitics favoring redistribution, equality
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
collectivists · statists · reformers · revolutionaries · populists · progressives · Attlee · Nasser
Government taking private property
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- requisitionFormal order for supplies
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- socializationInternalizing cultural norms
collectivization · statism · public-sector · dirigisme · interventionism · municipalization
Fixed-track transport systems
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- gasFormless, expanding substance
- minesOre extraction sites
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
banks · telecommunications · airlines · utilities · electricity · water · coal · copper
State sells public assets
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- treasuryStored organizational funds
- budgetPlan for spending
subsidy · tariff · protectionism · utilities · infrastructure · monopoly · antitrust
Owners of productive wealth
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- investorsThose who commit capital
- corporationsLegally incorporated business entities
- multinationalsCorporations operating in multiple countries
oligarchs · tycoons · landowners · industrialists · proprietors · compensation · litigation · sanctions
socialism
Communal economic control
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- leftismPolitics favoring redistribution, equality
Bolsheviks · collectivists · statists · reformers · revolutionaries · populists · progressives · Attlee · Nasser · ideology
expropriation
Government taking private property
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- requisitionFormal order for supplies
- confiscationSeizure by authority
socialization · collectivization · statism · public-sector · dirigisme · interventionism · municipalization
railways
Fixed-track transport systems
steel · banks · telecommunications · airlines · utilities · electricity · water · coal · copper · healthcare
privatization
State sells public assets
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- treasuryStored organizational funds
budget · subsidy · tariff · protectionism · utilities · infrastructure · monopoly · antitrust
capitalists
Owners of productive wealth
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- investorsThose who commit capital
- corporationsLegally incorporated business entities
multinationals · oligarchs · tycoons · landowners · industrialists · proprietors · compensation · litigation · sanctions · divestment
nationalizersprivatizers
Those selling government holdings
capitalists · neoliberals · libertarians · Thatcherites · supply-siders
nationalize, nationalized, internationalize, internationalized, renationalize, denationalize, denationalized, nationalizes, nationalizer