State Capitalism: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
=Definition= | |||
State Capitalism is a term used, generally, to reference the way that a sovereign government works with or facilitates explicitly for-profit activities within the sovereigns jurisdiction. This term is of interest to P2P researchers because the process and effects of collusion between the government of the world and for-profit enterprise often provides a series of potential barriers to the clarification of how a P2P approach can be used to facilitate the emergence of a [[Commons based]] economy. | State Capitalism is a term used, generally, to reference the way that a sovereign government works with or facilitates explicitly for-profit activities within the sovereigns jurisdiction. This term is of interest to P2P researchers because the process and effects of collusion between the government of the world and for-profit enterprise often provides a series of potential barriers to the clarification of how a P2P approach can be used to facilitate the emergence of a [[Commons based]] economy. | ||
From Wikipedia | |||
From Wikipedia: | |||
''State capitalism''' has various different meanings, but is usually described as a society wherein the productive forces are state-controlled and directed by the Sovereign state in a capitalist manner, even if such a state calls itself socialist. Corporatized state agencies and states that own controlling shares of publicly-listed firms, and thus acting as a capitalist itself, are two examples of state capitalism." | '''State capitalism''' has various different meanings, but is usually described as a society wherein the productive forces are state-controlled and directed by the Sovereign state in a capitalist manner, even if such a state calls itself socialist. Corporatized state agencies and states that own controlling shares of publicly-listed firms, and thus acting as a capitalist itself, are two examples of state capitalism." | ||
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism) | |||
Revision as of 13:58, 8 August 2010
Definition
State Capitalism is a term used, generally, to reference the way that a sovereign government works with or facilitates explicitly for-profit activities within the sovereigns jurisdiction. This term is of interest to P2P researchers because the process and effects of collusion between the government of the world and for-profit enterprise often provides a series of potential barriers to the clarification of how a P2P approach can be used to facilitate the emergence of a Commons based economy.
From Wikipedia:
State capitalism has various different meanings, but is usually described as a society wherein the productive forces are state-controlled and directed by the Sovereign state in a capitalist manner, even if such a state calls itself socialist. Corporatized state agencies and states that own controlling shares of publicly-listed firms, and thus acting as a capitalist itself, are two examples of state capitalism."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism)