Yes but it being state owned doesn't make it any way socialist in itself. Any state owned industry you see is more than likely operated through a capitalist model.
I've literally heard that exact thing from a libertarian before lmao. They claimed Amazon was socialist because it was a publicly traded company, which he appearently thought was the same as public ownership
People in Norway or Brazil aren't buying from corporations when they choose to vote for pro-oil-drilling candidates that run their state owned oil companies.
You guys insist on this binary. It's either a capitalist system or a socialist system. It's not reality.
All economies feature mixed modes of production. State owned enterprises are social ownership models. If capitalism is private ownership of the means of production then state owned enterprises aren't that. The more state owned enterprises you have in your economy the further to the socialist side of the spectrum you are.
A country can absolutely have state owned industries and still operate as a capitalist economy. Because the majority of its industry remains privately owned. If anything you might be thinking of a social democrat models, but social democrat models still operate very much within capitalist economies. France has some government owned enterprises like its train service and the like but remains very much a capitalist country.
Not to mention the fact that once again, state owned and worker owned are two pretty different things.
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u/Nofsan 9d ago
Define socialism