nationalizing

Government seizes industry

Nationalizing is the act of transferring private assets, industries, or services into government ownership or control.

A government might nationalize banks during a financial crisis, or take over railroads, utilities, or natural resources that are deemed too important to remain in private hands.

The country began nationalizing its oil industry in the 1970s.

The process is often controversial, pitting state interests against property rights and market principles.

statization

expropriation

Government taking private property

requisition · sequestration · confiscation · municipalization · socialization · appropriation

ideology

socialism

Communal economic control

  • MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
  • communismCollective ownership system
  • LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine

redistribution · egalitarianism · left-wing · proletariat · anti-capitalism · collectivism · populism

sovereignty

independence

Freedom from external control

decolonization · anti-imperialism · patrimony · repatriation · self-governance · postcolonial

centralization

consolidation

Combining into unified whole

bureaucracy · coordination · integration · monopoly · hierarchy · merger · streamlining

protectionism

tariffs

Taxes on imports

quotas · mercantilism

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Opposites
ownership transfer direction

nationalizingprivatizing

Selling government assets

denationalizing · privatising · selling off · divesting · deregulating

economic ideology

nationalizingThatcherism

British free-market conservatism

neoliberalism · Reaganomics · austerity measures · deregulation · capitalism

Family

nation, national, nationalism, international, nationality, multinational, nationalist, nationalize, internationally

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