Cessarea wrote:Great Khavar wrote:Capitalism is not defined by questions of ownership, but rather by the presence of generalised commodity production. Government or worker owned enterprises are still participants in the capitalist mode of production.
But the presence of that ownership signalises, along with stated and done revolutionary intent and action, a Socialist transition period. That's the point. Adherence to worker-owned private enterprise is not cause for exclusion of an experience from the label "socialist".
No, because socialism is not the same thing as the transition period! The transition period is a period of capitalist economy controlled by the dictatorship of the proletariat that precedes socialism, and is therefore mutually exclusive with socialism. The socialist or lower-stage communist economy is one that has done away with commodity production, money, property, classes, etc.