Is it not possible that those rallying around SSA & Co. - who you might loosely call state-capturists - are stuck for alternatives? If not the path of corruption, nor the path of Westernised liberal democracy, then what?  If not liberal capitalism, then what? You see, no-one has articulated a compelling, and above all workable, alternative to the binary options you have put forward. Where are the "other political and intellectual visions which go much deeper to the root and scope of the problem?" There aren't any on the table. And so those who oppose the kleptocracy fall back on the default options - Westminster-style opposition politics and a liberal capitalist economy. All you have done in this article is to attack both those who commit state capture and those who oppose it. Apart from a taxonomy of various state capture wrongs, have you got any better ideas?