Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story”. The more interesting angle on the latest Moore vehicle is a Moore is a Catholic and has included religion at the centre of the documentary film Capitalism: A Love Story. Alongside the political arguments about inequality, Wall Street corruption and the failures of George W. Bush, Moore argues that capitalism is also fundamentally unchristian.

In the film he interviews several Catholic priests, who explain their belief that capitalism and the free market, by emphasizing greed and the self over community, go against the  basic tenets. One priest, Dick Preston, tells Moore: "Capitalism is evil, immoral and contrary to the teachings of Jesus." There have always been people who question a society based on greed. That is what capitalism is in Moore’s movie. It is based on the greed motive, a radical evil. Go and see for yourself providing you’ve got enough money for a cinema ticket.