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Matt Taibbi
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Matt Taibbi
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@FluorescentGrey Do you think I was a poor writer back then? God you people are insufferable.
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Matt Taibbi
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No, lol, in the Soviet Union stealing was rampant at all levels of society, and bribery/corruption, as in all systems.
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Matt Taibbi
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Most of the Wall Street schemes I covered were scale versions of street cons. When mortgage originators sold securities with faked income levels, that was the old pig-in-a-poke scam. Unless you think “The Sting” is a comment on capitalism, not really about ideology…
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Matt Taibbi
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Griftopia is a book about financial crimes - some very clever ones, in fact. It’s neither an indictment nor an endorsement of capitalism, and just describes various fraud schemes. But what do I know, I only wrote it…
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It’s in the DSA platform:
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Matt Taibbi
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I did rail against financial elites, but obviously you didn’t read closely, because the chief complaint of my sources (all other Wall Street players) was that banks like Goldman, Sachs were engaged in anticompetitive practices. The issue was corruption, not capitalism
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Matt Taibbi
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If the DSA is “hardly anticapitalist” in practice, why does it put “abolition of capitalism” in its platform?
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Matt Taibbi
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No, I’m just not in favor of abolishing capitalism. I never was.
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Matt Taibbi
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So the DSA platform doesn’t seek the abolition of capitalism and nationalization of industry? Or is that not radical?
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Listen to This Article: A Pause to Chuckle at the Democrats' Tortured Mamdani Wigout
The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral primary swiftly moved Democrats to Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression, but not Acceptance
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