Michael Moore blows the whistle in Capitalism
The Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO and the DC Labor Film Festival last night hosted an area premiere showing of Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story.
In the film, Moore skillfully juxtaposes modern American ideas of capitalism against traditional values of equality, justice and democracy. Someone says capitalism is established by the U.S. Constitution? Moore visits the National Archives but cannot find "capitalism" or "free enterprise" anywhere in the original Constitution. Capitalism has brought us the highest standard of living and prosperity? Moore finds victims of the foreclosure crisis who disagree, persuasively. I laughed out loud when Moore portrayed what Jesus might have said if Christianity endorsed capitalism.
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