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[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They literally own the means of production

[โ€“] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"They" just doesnt seem to be the average Chinese citizen.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The large firms and key industries in China are overwhelmingly publicly owned:

[โ€“] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

State owned to mean public owned depends on the robustness of the democratic pratices of the state to me

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

China is comprehensively democratic as well, and has high approval rates for it:

[โ€“] Mubelotix@jlai.lu -3 points 1 week ago

They literally own the workers