Editing Nationalization (section)

==Marxist theory==
The term appears as "expropriation of expropriators ([[ruling class]]es)" in [[Marxism|Marxist theory]], and also as the slogan "Loot the looters!" ("грабь награбленное"), which was very popular during the [[Russian Revolution]].<ref>[[Orlando Figes]], ''A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution'', 1996, {{ISBN|0-7126-7327-X}}.</ref> The term is also used to describe nationalization campaigns by [[communist states]], such as [[dekulakization]] and [[collectivization in the USSR]].<ref name="Pipes">[[Richard Pipes]] ''Property and Freedom'', Vintage Books, A division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1999, {{ISBN|0-375-70447-7}}, page 214.</ref>

However, nationalization is not a specifically socialist strategy, and Marxism's founders were skeptical of its value. As Engels put it:
{{Blockquote |text=Therein precisely lies the rub; for, so long as the propertied classes remain at the helm, nationalisation never abolishes exploitation but merely changes its form — in the French, American or Swiss republics no less than in monarchist Central, and despotic Eastern, Europe. |author=Friedrich Engels |source=''Letter from Engels to Max Oppenheim, 24 March 1891'' }}

[[Nikolai Bukharin]] also criticised the term ''nationalisation'', preferring the term ''statisation'' instead.<ref>''Economy of transition period, Chapter Seven'' 'The latter term, indeed, certainly is not perfect. First, it mixes "nation" ("whole") with the state, i.e. the ruling class. Second, it has shade of national states epoch. We keep it because it is absolutely rooted, though there are no logical grounds for its existence.'</ref>