↑ O'Hara,Phillip(September 2003).Encyclopedia of Political Economy, Volume 2.Routledge.p.71.ISBN0-415-24187-1."In order of increasing decentralisation (at least) three forms of socialised ownership can be distinguished: state-owned firms, employee-owned (or socially) owned firms, and citizen ownership of equity.",
↑ Hastings, Mason and Pyper,Adrian, Alistair and Hugh(December 21, 2000).The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought.Oxford University Press.p.677.ISBN978-0-19-860024-4."Socialists have always recognized that there are many possible forms of social ownership of which co-operative ownership is one. Nationalization in itself has nothing particularly to do with socialism and has existed under non-socialist and anti-socialist regimes. Kautsky in 1891 pointed out that a ‘co-operative commonwealth’ could not be the result of the ‘general nationalization of all industries’ unless there was a change in ‘the character of the state’."