Owning the means of production is to take ownership.
Look up "owning the means of production" and "the bourgeoisie" Excerpt from wikipedia: "In a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie, or the capitalist class, is the class that owns the means of production and derives a passive income from their operation. Examples of the capitalist class include business owners, shareholders and the minority of people who own factories, machinery and lands." "If you can't beat them, join them"
Sun tzu's Art of War, Attack by Stratagem: "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them."

Unfortunately it has statements that most are going fall into: "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
And
"if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him."

This is because you stand no chance and will only be able to observe; so it is best to create distance instead of fighting.