They are owned by the State.
In the USSR all industries were publicly owned.
According to experts, a major goal of many African nations is to build their own industries and produce goods for their own use.
This describes communist countries.
No. England owned much of those industries.
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Every state has its own list of major industries that are important to that state. For New Jersey, these include the pharmaceutical industry, the financial industry, chemical development, telecommunications, food processing, electric equipment, printing, publishing, and tourism.
In a democracy people have the right to choose whether or not to own. In communism, no-one has the right to own as ownership of everything is collective.
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There is a Nipponese term which fits that description - "zaibatsu".
The USSR had their own version of Marxism which was called Marxist-Lenninism, and Stalin had a more paranoid version of that, called Stalinism. The ideas of Marx were certainly a major part of communism as practiced in Russia, but there were major elements of communism which departed from the original theories of Marx; it is doubtful that Marx himself, had he lived to observe the USSR, would have been happy with it.
No. Communism is a belief system. Some countries have a Communistic-style government, and each country has its own leader.
James Cummings is the owner of lucas industries but his friend lucas is founder.