State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises. The defini
Friedrich Engels, who argued that state ownership does not do away with capitalism by itself
Mikhail Bakunin, who criticized state socialism as state capitalism, predicting that if the Marxists were successful in seizing power, they would create a party dictatorship
Wilhelm Liebknecht, who criticized Otto von Bismarck's State Socialism policy as being "really State capitalism"
Murray Rothbard, who advanced a right-libertarian analysis of state capitalism
A state-owned enterprise or government-owned enterprise is a business entity created or owned by a central or local government, either through an executive order or legislation. SOEs aim to generate p
State capitalism
…is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labor). The definition can also include the state dominance of…
Three Acela trains at Washington Union Station