[croes]

> In capitalism, the market decides.

> In oligarchy, connections and donations decide.

> but after Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC

Sounds like they paid Trump and the government, can it get more capitalistic?

Oligarchy and capitalism don’t contradict each other

[127]

Free market capitalism and corporatocracy are two opposite things. (Free markets don't exist without strong institutions and regulation)

[tgv]

I don't know how you can say that. What does "free market capitalism" entail according to you? Wikipedia's definition is just a ruse to be able to claim that free market capitalism is sane, but you can't exclude a governing authority and monopolies at the same time, because the latter always arises. So, in reality, you have to choose, and if you choose absence of authority, corporatocracy is an automatic extension of free market capitalism.

[coliveira]

Only in the minds of people who make capitalism a religion. It has always been like this, early capitalism was even worse with dirty money buying every politician they could get their hands on. Just read anything about the US in the end of the 19th century.

[heavyset_go]

They're both capitalism

[croes]

Real free market capitalism is a real as working communism and have both the same underlying problem: people.

They lie and cheat to accumulate power