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Re Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story

[Moore] is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values and political economy of American capitalism is fit for human beings. Although this will not seem so radical in Europe, where most countries have had governments that at least called themselves socialist, or in most of the developing world, it’s pretty much unprecedented for something that can reach a mass audience in the US. But you don’t have to be a revolutionary to appreciate this film. Indeed, it can be seen as a social democratic treatise, with Franklin Roosevelt’s proposed “second bill of rights” – an “economic bill of rights” that included a job with a living wage, housing, medical care, and education – as its reform program. Roosevelt is shown proposing this now forgotten program back in 1944

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