Capitalism not the villain here

Michael Moore quotes in his current film, "Capitalism: A Love Story." "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil... you have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people."

In response to Moore's film and quote, Columnist Vasko Kohlmayer states that, "Capitalism is increasingly cast as the great villain of our time. It's blamed for exploitation, poverty, fraud, alienation, crime, racism and nearly everything else."

Kohlmayer continues, "The bad rap could not be more undeserved. Rather than mankind's scourge, capitalism has been its greatest benefactor. It is, in fact, the only socio-economic system that can provide ordinary people with dignified and prosperous lives. It was only with the advent of capitalism that the common man was able to escape the penury and filth of his existence to which he had been previously consigned. Until then, the lives of most people were short, hard and miserable. Today, as if by miracle, we can enjoy greater comforts and ease of life than the kings of the past."

As author Lew Rockwell confirms, "Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death."

Kohlmeyer points out , "Capitalism is responsible for nearly everything that makes human existence easy and comfortable. The automobile, the supermarket, the personal computer, the washing machine, the hammer drill, the iPhone, the airplane, the TV set, the chewing gum, electricity and countless other good things have all been birthed and mass produced by capitalism."

Rockwell agrees, "The profit system balances human needs with the availability of all the world's resources, unleashes the amazing power of human creativity, and works to meet the material needs of every member of society at the least possible cost. It does this through exchange, cooperation, competition, entrepreneurship, and all the institutions that make possible capitalism - the most productive economic system this side of heaven."

Says Kohlmater, "Because of its immense wealth-generating power, people who live in capitalist societies enjoy rising standards of living and material affluence. Conversely, those who live in non-capitalist societies invariably experience the opposite. The rule always holds: Capitalist societies are invariably prosperous. Non-capitalist ones are always poor."

So what in the hell is going on with Michael Moore and the Hollywood left? Actors Sean Penn and Danny Glover, among others, are kissing up to the socialist dictator Chavez in Venezuela. Penn, Glover and their ilk seem to prefer a government strong man who will confiscate the property and wealth of those who earned it and transfer it to illiterates in exchange for their votes. This must also be their vision for America. These are insane ideas and trends. If they prevail, those of us who look to prosper and benefit ourselves and our family, will be on the outside looking in. Capitalist could even follow the Russian kulaks (farmers) who were exterminated by Lenin and Stalin in order to implement collective farming. What was interesting in that move, the kulaks praised those leaders when they expropriated private property from the wealthy and gave it to the kulaks. But as with all despots, Lenin and Stalin turned on the kulaks and expropriated the land from the kulaks for themselves. Socialists and communists have often murdered those who were their allies or those who disagreed with them. As Che Guevara advised: "the oppressors must be killed mercilessly. The revolutionary must become an efficient and selective killing machine" Michael Moore has a lot more in common with the Bolsheviks than most would like to believe. David Horowitz (a former associate of the Black Panthers who experienced the Panther's murder of a friend) has become the leading authority on the radical left.

He puts it this way, "It's interesting that we have words like "neo-Nazi" to describe post-Hitler Nazis, and 'neo-conservative' to describe liberals who left the Democratic Party when it took a sharp turn to the left, but not 'neo-Communist" to describe the massive numbers of people on the left - and among them very influential people - who share, almost to the jot and title, the old communist view of capitalism, and are prepared to act on that perception. . . Neo-communists like Moore share the old communists' antipathy for the United States and sympathy for its enemies, even enemies as evil as Iran and Hezbollah. A neo-communist is someone who is convinced that race, class, and gender hierarchies make it not only legitimate but necessary to describe America as a "white supremacist" society. Neo-communists believe that a revolution is necessary (if not opportune at the moment), that the Constitution is a disposable document, and that America's communist and Islamo-fascist enemies (Iran, Venezuela. Cuba, Nicaragua, Hezbollah, the PLO and Hamas) are freedom fighters or at least on the right side of the Armageddon that faces us."

Among those who share these views are: The Nation Magazine, Commonsense.org, the social justice movement, the majority of the Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus on the Democratic side in Congress and by tens of thousands of university professors who indoctrinate their students in these pernicious ideologies every day. These views are also held by the leaders of ACORN, the SEIU, AFCSME, and other leftwing unions, by radical feminists, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights. This coalition, of radical leftist and communists,' presents a massive threat to America's security, its individual freedoms and its free market system..

Columnist Walter Williams observes Michael Moore's new film, which Williams calls lying propaganda, sums it up this way: "Not withstanding all of the demagoguery, it is capitalism not socialism that made us a great country and it's socialism that will be our undoing."