On our path to decency, this film cannot be blamed for being.

Rating: 5/10 (8 January 2013)

I am a Swede and so a "foreigner" to the people of America. In practice I have as little to be proud of that fact as any people for in my country as in all other countries today slavery is not abolished. It has simply become "wage-slavery". Compared to open slavery there is however a little difference. You cannot as easily kill a wage-slave as a slave that is your property. You can as easily starve a wage-slave and make his or her life as miserable as any slave's but you cannot go forth and simply openly kill a wage-slave as easily as a slave which is your property.
To most foreigners there is a mystery about Americans, especially poor Americans. How could they ever vote Republican? This movie provides no answer to that question and does instead add another question: "How can a poor person ever vote Democrat?".
As the example of the Soviet Union clearly demonstrates Communism or Socialism is not the final answer to Capitalism. They are however failed steps in the right direction. We must find other steps in that right direction of abolishing all kinds of slavery.
What did all the poor people of the South fight for in the civil war, one might ask. That is the same American mystery as stated above. The answer provided so far to us "foreigners" is that they fought for the American dream, which means to be a millionaire before the age of thirty, by any means possible, one might ad. In competition with others, which means as much as animosity to others when you come down to it, you are supposed to get that million and that abominable action is worth dying for? Is that America? Yes, so it seems.
Communism and Socialism, when set in practice, did not abolish competition. Their theories were not strong enough to hinder a malpractice but these theories were not as silly as "competition at all costs".
So far, Anarchism has never been tried and maybe there are other "isms" out there that could maybe be tried. We must not give up and even if it is not plausible that we will survive if we continue with capitalism - that is really not the question. Abomination should never survive and if the species "human" finds no other way than that, then that species belongs exterminated and we should not grief its demise.
So, how do we arrive at "total material equality" as a first step to decency, because that is what it all boils down to for the present. Can you see your most hated enemy having the right to never stand before you with "hat in hand" begging? Can you do that, then you are ready for a life in decency.