On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:19 AM, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess one could say “so what ?”. I’m thinking he has decided that > his “Capitalism is evil” and “we must replace it with democracy” line > that I heard him deliver in an interview on the movie on one of the > major network morning shows last week is the most left position that a > great mass of Americans might be able to get to. Of course, it is also > likely that a basic socialist or communist position would not long be > allowed to reach the mass audience that his films are allowed to > reach. What would be naive would be to think the US powers-that-be are > now tolerant of communist free speech. Moore is getting away with > being about as left as one can be as a major public journalist. He's > sort of like the Bolivarians: he just doesn't use the "c" word.
I agree and I think Moore is smart for avoiding the "c" word. He talks in code so that more people get to listen to him etc. Good for him. -raghu. -- "As a matter of fact, no, I don't have a life." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
