"Shit. It really sounds around here like the American Left is settling for table scraps instead of something more substantial and radical."
If you dont have health care, you can be excused for wanting that table scrap more than a politically correct denunciation of capitalism.
If you are comparing profit versus not-for-profit means of delivering services, aren't you talking about capitalism anyway?
BobW
--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Compared to what? The movie's in hundreds of
> theaters, released by a
> > major distributor. Moore's all over the media. If
> he'd condemned
> > capitalism and called for revolution, he'd be on
> YouTube. It's
> > amazing that something as critical not only of US
> health insurance
> > but of the ethic of competitive individualism gets
> this much
> > attention at all.
>
> Shit. It really sounds around here like the American
> Left is settling
> for table scraps instead of something more
> substantial and radical.
>
> I fully expect that after I see this film, I will
> still agree with my
> friend Herod's critiqu of this film.
>
> Chuck
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