"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:



September 6th, 2009 9:15 am
"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film


By Mike Collett-White


VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion of U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore's latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival on Sunday.

Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

The bad guys in Moore's mind are big banks and hedge funds which "gambled" investors' money in complex derivatives that few, if any, really understood and which belonged in the casino. Meanwhile, large companies have been prepared to lay off thousands of staff despite boasting record profits.

The filmmaker also attacks the uncomfortably close relationship between banks, politicians and U.S. Treasury officials, meaning that regulation has been changed to favor the few on Wall Street rather than the many on Main Street. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=14380

[Egalitariat]

1. Michael Moore is right up there with George HW Bush and his ancestors when it comes to profiting

from American tragedy.

I wonder what he'll do with all the "profits" that his film about evil capitalism generates.

[Lorax7844]

2. Lame comment

Michael will get his chance to explain his movie to Oprah, with each movie political converts, well worth the money he's made off his films.

[Egalitariat]

3. A value judgment, I guess. I like his message so I don't care if he gets rich off it.

I don't like that other guy's message, so I'm pissed he gets rich off it.

Maybe in a true worker's paradise, where a central committee of like-minded lefties determined what was good and bad, Michael Moore would still be rich and George HW Bush and his cronies would all be paupers.

[John Q. Citizen]

7. Or perhaps people don't like or dislike Michael Moore or GHW Bush becuase of their net worth but

instead because of their deeds.

i mean Michael Moore actually works, creates and produces something positive for his money, while GHW bush kills to earn his.

[Zavulon]

15. Lame response

to a perfectly legitimate point. The money he spends on housing alone could feed thousands, I don't see him rejecting capitalism when it suits him. But you like his message, so it's okay if he's a hypocrite. Got it. :eyes:

[niyad]

16. the money he spends on housing could feed thousands? care to provide a link, a RELIABLE one?

so none of his humanitarian work, including getting serious issues discussed, matters to you? just exactly what do you think he should be doing?

by the way, what, exactly, do YOU do for your community?

[Zavulon]

19. Care to use common sense, some RELIABLE common sense?

Have you seen where he lives? Nobody actually needs all that. Nobody with a brain would need a link to figure out the obvious, either. If I said the same thing about the mansions of Al Gore and John Edwards, would you need a link for that, too? :eyes: If I said he had two arms and two eyes, would you need a link for that? Christ, nothing makes me roll my eyes more than seeing someone who doesn't like a certain point demand a link to prove the obvious.

He rags on capitalism, the only system that would allow him to live the sort of excess lifestyle he has now, but his hypocrisy is okay to you. Fine. To each his or her own. If you want to be a hypocrite too, that's your call.

What do I do for my community? Let's pretend for a moment that it's any of your business - in that case, one of the things I do is draw people's attention to the hypocrisy of Michael Moore and the thick-witted attempts to defend him made by people like you.

[teknomanzer]

4. Whatever...

Yes, bash the man for being a successful filmmaker.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Fortunatly Michael does a lot of good things for a lot of people.

I question your knowledge of Michael Moore and of GHW Bush and I also question your bias.

What is wrong with you?

[niyad]

6. so telling the truth and getting paid for it is, in your mind, equal to working with the nazis?

you really do need to explain that for those of us whose caffeine intake is not sufficient to see the similarities.

[DailyGrind51]

10. So, a true "self-made man" can't make money from exposing the lies and frauds

of "patriotism pimps", death merchants, and "neo-con-artists"?

[donheld]

14. Asinine

[virgogal]

8. The spoils of captalism are okay for him,though. Hypocrisy.

[HughBeaumont]

11. Right, because everyone preaching against wrongdoing should do it for free.

This headline and your assertion are both unfair and absolutely missing the point. Criminal crony corporatism is what he's railing against, not capitalism. No one would understand the term "corporatism", therefore he speaks in a language common with all stripes. There is no hidden agenda like you and the rest of the Jon Voight/Dennis Miller section think there is.

We never stand up. We never nail ourselves to hard ground. We capitulate, compromise and cave. And we never get one goddamned INCH, not one BONE as a result. Everything on this earth has to be about making a buck . . . always.

[Curtland1015]

9. I think some of you are missing the point. He's not saying liking MONEY is evil...

...he's saying making money at the expense of the less fortunate is.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. Who was it that said that MONEY wasn't "the root of all evil"...

it was the LOVE of money that was the root of all evil.

And to think somebody actually tested $20 bills for the cocaine residue on them. They should be testing them for sperm counts.

[booley]

12. Excluded Middle BS

How the hell is pointing out the flaws in our current capitalist system mean you are against capitalism?!

WTF?

Unless he's changed is position in this movie, Moore isn't saying anything I haven't said for years and I sure as hell am not against capitalism. I own my own business. I love making money. It's just there are limits to what I will do to make that money (like exploiting people and keeping them poor and servile)

I think that's really one of the biggest snow jobs of the right... that the Lassaize Faire system we have now is the ONLY one and anything else is some slow road to Stalin's Russia. IF we help people get health care or make a decent living, that means we'll be putting them into work camps next?!

It's an obvious excluded middle fallacy. And I am annoyed when anyone buys into it.

[get the red out]

17. Michael Moore tells the damn truth

No matter what anyone thinks about him. That's why he makes the PTB's so nervous. He is correct!

[Octafish]

18. Good. He's right. Capitalism IS evil.

Concentrating wealth and power in the hands of the few, capitalism is the antithesis of democracy.

It qualifies as evil because it's the systemization of the worship of money over morality.



Know your BFEE: Money Trumps Peace. Always.