I am a capitalist

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2. A lot of people here on DU completely blur the distinction between corporatism...

...banking, the stock market, crony capitalism, etc., with capitalism itself.

Or, if they possibly get those distinctions, they'd like to hand-wave it all away by inferring or insisting that any capitalism at all must inevitably turn into the kind of financial system we have now, with all of its corrupt influence on politics,