The West lives in a little of bubble of sorts when it comes to anti business sentiment.
Government is also business. It might be very well the first business.
At least in Japan, they recognize they’re always owned by a corporation already, be the figure be embodied in the likes of Seto Kaiba, President Shinra, Tatsuya’s father in Timeranger, and probably many other characters not known to me.
The socialist fails to distinguish between the two threads they support: one being the non-invasive welfare state, the other being the erosion of checks like due process and ability to contest the government. In wanting the former, the latter is accepted.