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

submitted 17 hours ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 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.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 52 minutes ago

Well, in theory is pretty different from in practice

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

All states oppress people, thats the point of a state. The goal of a socialist state is to oppress the bourgeois