For good and ill, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is a product of the current crisis of capitalism. On the one hand, this crisis forced Moore to try and go beyond liberal critiques of a single issue, the usual fare for his documentaries. Thus, in his latest documentary Moore aimed to critically examine [...]
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Fischer over at Notes from Underground recently blogged about the BBC’s miniseries adaptation of Dickens’s Little Dorrit and the critique of capitalism implicit in it. I can’t comment on that work as the only Dickens I’ve read is his 1854 novel Hard Times, but that’s fine because Hard Times is one of the finest [...] As I made my internet rounds yesterday, I had the misfortune of coming across the following text, evidently put out by a Russian group called “Alternatives.” Nothing I’ve seen indicates that this text or Alternatives have anything to do with today’s Financial Fool’s Protest, but as this group and the groups in London are [...] |
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