[subverter]

"Crony" is so often followed by "capitalism", but it's really just cronyism that's the issue. You can find it in capitalism and you can find it in government. But they go best hand-in-hand. I'd argue that most crony capitalism is made possible only because they can leverage the monopolistic power of their crony allies in government for mutual gain.

[RobertoG]

I hear frequently the argument that crony capitalism is not really capitalism. And how "real capitalism" would work wonderfully.

That always remember me, how, when you argue with a communist, frequently those examples that you bring to the conversation are never "real communism".