Re:Blame Cronyism, Not Capitalism
by nopenopenopeno on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:44AM
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>There have been a lot of attempts to curtail wealth driven lobbying. Capital somehow overcomes all of them.
Exactly. It’s called “capitalism” for a reason. Karl Marx understood exactly how it worked when he started using this term to refer to it. It’s also the basis for Marx’s “political economy” which understands the politics are inseparable from the economics.
This inability of capital to help itself from corrupting lawmakers is apparently the fault of the state, not the fault of capitalism for reasons I can't quite fathom but might make sense if I had a lot more money.
If somebody emerged from poverty in the third world though, and capital was tangentially involved then lavish praise is apparently due.