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One of the most common objections to critiques of capitalism is "we don’t have real capitalism, we have corporatism" or "crony capitalism" or even "techno-feudalism." These claims are often well-intentioned, but they miss the point. Let’s talk about capitalism, corporatism, and cronyism.
Do We Really Live Under Capitalism?– Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Two definitions of corporatism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/corporatism
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20630041
Wikipedia crony capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
Meta and Google mergers & acquisitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet
Wal-Mart
https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walmart_employees_on_food_stamps_their_wages_aren_t_enough_to_get_by.html
On the necessity of the state for capitalism
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/157973/1/bna-259_20090522_nb_casp_full_indexed.pdf
Monopolies in free market systems
https://www.marxist.com/monopoly-capitalism.htm
Libertarian utopias
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.23.1.0238
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