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Capitalism is evil, says Michael Moore

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Capitalism is evil,” says new Michael Moore film

Courtesy: YahooNews, Sun Sep 6, 11:58 AM

By Mike Collett-White

VENICE (Reuters) – Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday. Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty. “Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil,” the two-hour movie concludes. “You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.”

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 sees an 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.

He says that by encouraging Americans to borrow against the value of their homes, businesses created the conditions that led to the crisis, and with it homelessness and unemployment.

Moore even features priests who say capitalism is anti-Christian by failing to protect the poor.

“Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we’ve allowed Wall Street to do this and they’ve played with people’s money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives,” Moore told an audience in Venice.

“They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in order to create finance and money, support for jobs, businesses, etc.”

Source – http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090906/entertainment/centertainment_us_venice_capitalism

One thought on “Capitalism is evil, says Michael Moore”

  1. The problem is that capitalism is evil in itself, it has worked for a long time. The problem is that out of control capitalism is, by definition, evil in that it benefits a small minority at the expense of the majority.

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