Am 03.01.2012 19:43, schrieb Graham Nye:
On 03/01/2012 13:16, Lüko Willms wrote:

isn't it ridiculous to claim that the nature of a company stops being
a "real commercial company" when the composition of her shareholders
changes?
No. If a company is owned by, say, a national government which runs the
company with some objective other than making a commercial return then
the "company stops being a "real commercial company"".

This is a new, and welcome turn of your stance. The correct phrase
ist "with some objective other than making a commercial return", i.e.
profit.

But this does not have anything to do with the ownership. It might
have to do with which class is holding state power.

Under capitalist rule, you will find that most state owned
enterprises are actually operated with the objective to make profit.

That is what makes a distinction, not the shareholder.

L.W.