{"id":353,"date":"2019-01-20T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsm.prolerat.org\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:10:56","slug":"ownership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ownership<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ownership_-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cartoon: Golfer to caddy dialogue.\n&quot;there are two sides ot every coin my friend-it makes me rich and you poor.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-355\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/th-th-th-thats-all-folks\/\">Th-th-th-that&#8217;s all folks!<\/a> (March 2004)<\/p>\n<p><em>More reflections on inequality in the United States of America<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/no-logo\/\">No Logo<\/a> (March 2001)<\/p>\n<p><em>Globalisation and the spread of the &#8216;brand.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/who-owns-the-world\/\">Who owns the world? <\/a> (November 1996)<\/p>\n<p><em>The world&#8217;s 358 billionaires have more assets than the combined incomes of<br \/>\ncountries representing 45% of the planet&#8217;s population<\/em>(1) <\/p>\n<p><em>From 1960 to 1990 the share in global income of the poorest 20 percent of the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s population fell from 2.3 percent to 1.4 percent. The share of the richest 20<br \/>\npercent of the grew from 70% to 85%<\/em>(2)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/two-class-society\/\">Two-class society<\/a> (July 1996)<\/p>\n<p><em>Introducing our class-based analysis of society<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/from-third-world-to-one-world\/\">From Third World to One World?<\/a> (April 2001)<\/p>\n<p><em>How capitalism is perpetuating the existence of a &#8216;Third world&#8217; and whether this can be<br \/>\nreversed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/america-from-dream-to-nightmare\/\">America &#8211; from dream to nightmare<\/a> (August 1996)<\/p>\n<p><em>Reflections on the class struggle in the United States of America<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>(1) The Independent 23\/7\/96 <\/p>\n<p>(2) OXFAM<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/analysis\/\">In-Depth menu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsocialism.org\/wsm\">World Socialist Movement home page<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ownership Th-th-th-that&#8217;s all folks! (March 2004) More reflections on inequality in the United States of America No Logo (March 2001) Globalisation and the spread of the &#8216;brand.&#8217; Who owns the world? (November 1996) The world&#8217;s 358 billionaires have more assets than the combined incomes of countries representing 45% of the planet&#8217;s population(1) From 1960 to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2062,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"magazine_newspaper_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-353","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}