On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 10:25 AM, hari kumar wrote: > > I mean who "owns and controls" either NY bourse or the Federal Reserve? > The inverted statement would run then as: > "In an age of finance capitalism, what significance to attach to the fact > that America's financial system is state controlled for the benefit of the > private capitalists who control the state?"
In answer to your question, Hari: 1) I was referring not to the central banks - the Fed in the US and PBOC in China - but to the industry as whole, and in particular to their commercial banks. The four largest in China - the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Bank of China,.the China Construction Bank, and the Agricultural Bank of China - are all-state owned, their management appointed by the Ministry of Finance. The four biggest US banks - JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America. Wells Fargo, and Citibank -are all owned by their private shareholders to whom management reports. Many on the US left have historically agitated for state- rather than private-ownership of the major banks because they rightfully believe it would transform the US capitalist economy. Unlike liberal and social democratic proponents of public banking, Marxists have argued it would require a social revolution to effect such a transfer of ownership precisely because the private sector in the US and other capitalist economies controls the state. 2) You do not touch on the more important question of ownership when you refer to America’s financial system being “controlled”, ie. regulated, by the state, as in all capitalist economies. Even by this metric, the shares in each Federal Reserve district are held by the commercial banks, unlike the PBOC which is wholly owned and funded by the state. The private ownership of the federal reserve system ensures that the US state is responsive to the financial industry, not the other way round as is still the case in China. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29681): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29681 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105142448/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
