Full Idea
Nationalisation leaves managers and officials almost as remote from the workers as they are under a capitalist regime.
Gist of Idea
Managers are just as remote from workers under nationalisation as under capitalism
Source
Bertrand Russell (Authority and the Individual [1949], 4)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Authority and the Individual' [Unwin 1977], p.63
A Reaction
Russell's solution is workplace democracy. Presumably that could be imposed on a nationalised industry much more easily than on a profit-driven private capitalist industry.