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Why are many businesses in democratic nations largely undemocratic? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Those are so similar to each other in comparison with capitalism that at this stage, we mostly use the same words to describe both.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

No, they are not. The USSR and China (only in theory) had/has public ownership and it is quite different than the workers comtrooling their business.

When the public owns the means of production you open up the likelihood of the state directly oppressing the workers as happened in the USSR and China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Well, in theory is pretty different from in practice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

All states oppress people, thats the point of a state. The goal of a socialist state is to oppress the bourgeois. While the workers of USSR and China did and do not have full control over means of production they had significantky more than we do