[hakka-nyu-su]

Yeah, the tea and herbs part is the first part, near the middle and end you start to see things like heavy industry.

There's a Marxist concept called "commanding heights of the economy" which refers to things like public utilities and transportation.

Theoretically a socialist government can retain control of this limited set of industries while letting foreign capital develop the others, so that the capital can't totally control the government.

[pbhjpbhj]

If (!) the government were democratic that would seem sensible, otherwise Capitalists get to control the government and the demos rule is subverted.