Michael Moore

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doesn't Moore tend to encourage the standard view of the working class as
passive victims incapable of understanding capitalism as a system?

I think that Moore's representation of the working class is often based on
the idea that 'authentic' working people are 'innocent' and 'ignorant' of
politics (unlike Moore himself and those 'leftists' Moore loves to
criticize). I think that this mode of representation is a problem.

On the other hand, I love his satire of the upper class arrogance. Artists
on the left should do much more in this vein.

Yoshie