Well, the short answer would be that nationalisation can be articulated to
notions of the nation as well as to a notion of the workers. Those are very
different - crudely, one leads to fascism, the other leads to communism.

Mark

2008/12/9 raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure how dirty a word it is, but the answer to the question is
> > that the illusion that   "nationalization = Socialism" is not confined
> > to posters on pen-l but is widely believed. So the question should be,
> > why is socialism  a dirty word in America. There is no necessary
> > relationship between nationalizatio and socialism, but almost everyone
> > believes there is.
>
>
> Can you explain this? Nationalization means collective ownership of
> means of production (at least in a democratic society) which at least
> hints of socialism, right?
> -raghu.
>
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