Is it safe to say that documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is a socialist?

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Anyone that says Karl Marx was right - I think it goes without saying.
 
Zach said:
In theory yes. In practice I’m not as sure.
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He’s the perfect apparatchik,
Loves telling everyone what they should do,
even comes with a luxury dacha retreat in the woods.
 
Michael Moore tries to pass off himself off as a director of documentaries. He twists the truth by deliberately showing clips out of context. He’s a propagandist and a liar.
 
Anyone that says Karl Marx was right - I think it goes without saying.
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I honestly doubt Michael Moore has ever read a single word from Marx. His approval of him seems to just be contained to vague ideas of Marx fighting for some kind of “justice” rather than actually seeing value in his critique of capital.
Well, then, is it safe to say that Michael Moore is a communist ?
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If he is, he’s not a very good one.

It isn’t uncommon for a lot of people in social democratic circles to hold some kind of soft approval of Marx, especially outside of the United States.
 
Vacuous, virtue-signaling sjw.
Calling him a socialist is far too polite - it makes him part of a club.

Let him stand alone - and defend the indefensible.
 
Is this just a thread to bash Moore? I liked his Corporation documentary
 
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njlisa said:
He’s a propagandist and a liar.
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I think I’d call him a polemicist rather than a propagandist.
dochawk said:
He is indeed unique in claiming the right to “artistic license” in a documentary!
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I didn’t know that he had actually made that claim. Certainly I’d consider him an excellent rhetorician.
CCHcolonel said:
Senator Jospeh McCarthy was a hero too good for the people he tried to save.
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I find that a surprising sentiment. You don’t think that service to your country is always a good, something rendered unconditionally, irrespective of political considerations? And I’m not talking about if your country happens to be Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, I mean under ordinary circumstances. It makes me wonder whether there would ever come a point where you would yourself decide that America isn’t worth saving. I assume not, but the suggestion is there.
 
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Londoner said:
I think I’d call him a polemicist rather than a propagandist.
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polemicist, and a populist too. Producing precisely the type of stuff that resonates well with his fan base. He’s not trying to convince anybody but just firing on those who are already with him, and to take their money.

In other words, he knows how to milk the stupid.
 
Regular_Atheist said:
I honestly doubt Michael Moore has ever read a single word from Marx
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That was my first reaction, too. It is too easy to say that Marx was right without having a clue about what he actually said. As a Soviet-Union analyst in my former life (MA in Soviet studies), I have actually cracked the covers of Das Kapital. It is supremely stultifying and brain-petrifying.

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I have a big problem with labels. The labels people place on others tend to cause a divide between us in this country.
If you want to cause problems for a person, call them a socialist or a fascist.
As a Catholic, we, too, are put down by those of other religious, because of our beliefs.
Why is it such a big deal to vote whether or not Michael Moore is a socialist?
Many call Donald Trump a racist and a misogynist.
These kind of words only cause a divide among the people.
I pray for those in our country to come together. 🙏🙏🙏 Division serves no positive purpose.
 
Any result from a reset button would also be a flawed system. It might work better for a while, but overtime would have the same level of flaws.
The is no perfect form of government. We are fallen.
Certainly any democratic of representative form of government would likely end up too centralized and too bureaucractic, as people progressively vote for more and more benefits selfishly. A reset from this could be a good thing.
But reset to what? I believe history would point us back to another representative form of government.
Benign dictatorships are few and far between.
Absolute monarchies suffer from the luck of draw relative to genetics, along with an ever growing centralization of power in the court.
 
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