Pastoralists remained private-enterprise holdouts within the socialist economy

Evidence

The nomads with their privately-owned herds of camels, cattle and flocks of sheep and goats remained obdurate exponents of private enterprise, selling surplus livestock to Somali and Arab-owned exporting firms, buying for the Arab and Persian Gulf market. Not all the off-take from the pastoral economy was distributed through private enterprise. A significant proportion found its way to the Russian built state-owned meat canning factory at Kismayu (where there is an American-built port). — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 524

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic property rights persist independent of legal recognition; Information-owning firms remain capitalist despite not owning means of production. — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 42