state ownership
Government holds title
State ownership is when a government holds title to property, businesses, or resources rather than private individuals or corporations.
Industries like utilities, railways, and natural resources are common targets: The country returned to state ownership of its oil fields.
The term often appears in debates over nationalization versus privatization.
Government directs all production
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
proletariat · means of production · five-year plan · soviet · collectivization · command economy · party control · expropriation
Made government property
- public utilityRegulated essential services provider
- public serviceWork for community benefit
- civil serviceGovernment's administrative workforce
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
administration · regulation · public assets · federal agency · government monopoly · treasury · public infrastructure · quango
Jointly operated enterprise
- communalShared by a community
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
- syndicalismUnion-led worker ownership theory
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
commonwealth · shared resources · public goods · stewardship · trusteeship · communitarianism · worker cooperative · land reform
central planning
Government directs all production
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
Stalinism · proletariat · means of production · five-year plan · soviet · collectivization · command economy · party control · expropriation · class struggle
nationalized
Made government property
- public utilityRegulated essential services provider
- public serviceWork for community benefit
- civil serviceGovernment's administrative workforce
bureaucracy · administration · regulation · public assets · federal agency · government monopoly · treasury · public infrastructure · quango
cooperative
Jointly operated enterprise
- communalShared by a community
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
- syndicalismUnion-led worker ownership theory
kibbutz · commonwealth · shared resources · public goods · stewardship · trusteeship · communitarianism · worker cooperative · land reform
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- East German Economyplanned economy, central planning, collectivization
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, means of production
- Soviet communismLenin, Stalin, Leninism, Bolsheviks, Stalinism
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
state ownershipprivate ownership
Individual control of assets
privatization · private enterprise · private property · individual ownership · private sector
state ownershipcapitalism
Private profit-based economy
free market · laissez-faire · market economy · neoliberalism · libertarianism
state ownershipprivatization
State sells public assets
denationalization · divestiture · deregulation · liberalization
state, estate, owned, ownership, states, owning, estates, interstate, statesman