CptSuperlative ,
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I want liberals and progressives to stop blaming capitalism when it's actually rampant corruption, regulatory capture, monopolies, duopolies, legal organized crime, and straight up feudalism that they're referring to.

It probably won't happen because using the word "capitalism" is easier and it conflates what small businesses do with what legal organized crime bosses do - which is exactly what legal organized crime bosses want us to do.

Because it white-washes them and casts progressives and liberals as radical lunatics. Which is a mantle that can be fun to wear but has the dangerous side effect of making us less effective at public persuasion.

So we go around complaining about "capitalism" and think we're being edgy and original when we're actually playing our role in their con.

So thank you for laying out the details of these legal organized crime bosses' cons so clearly.

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