[C. Edmund Wright]

I suppose the first observation to make about crony capitalism is that it is an oxymoron. If it is the product of cronyism it cannot be capitalism.

A: you could not be more wrong. The prefix CRONY changes capitalism to the opposite of capitalism, the same way prefixes like "anti" and "non" and "faux" and so on.

B:I tried to cut off inane comments at the pass, giving you two other options right there in the opening paragraphs...meaning look, move along, this article is not about the debate over what to call it.

C: This article was not about that. Thanks for reading, but missing the entire point.

[nathanbedford]

Noun: oxymoron

Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')

A: you could not be more wrong. The prefix CRONY changes capitalism to the opposite of capitalism, the same way prefixes like "anti" and "non" and "faux" and so on.

It is you who could not be more wrong. But you are not just wrong in the dictionary meaning, you are wrong in a far worse sense: you are wrong in your presumption, wrong in the idea that you have any right whatsoever to "cut me off" or decide what an article is about in my world. You wrote it, you own it but when I read it, I own it free of any claim of a jealous author as to what it shall mean to me.

Put your misplaced pride back in your pocket but continue writing at your normally high quality level, a level which I have incidentally complemented within the last 24 hours.