American Film Institute: 'Michael Moore- Talks About Socialism'

Source:American Film Institute- Successful, wealthy filmmaker Michael Moore, talking about socialism.

"Michael Moore talks about socialism while speaking after a screening of his film CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD." 

From The American Film Institute

I find it ironic that someone who speaks out against American capitalism and perhaps capitalism in general (which is what filmmaker/comedian Michael Moore does) a man who I have lets limited respect for, speaks out against an economic system that works so well for him. Michael Moore speaking out against capitalism, would be like Michale Jordan speaking out against the National Basketball Association, a league that has done so well for him and with him: you're going after your own bread and butter, meat and potatoes (Of what have you) 

Mr. Moore is not a government filmmaker or a government or a government comedian or a government actor, he's a private citizen who's had all of his professional success in life in the private sector. And yet he claims to be either a Socialist and if America were to give up on capitalism and move to a Marxist-Socialist economy, Mr, Moore then would become a state propagandist. 

Mr. Moore would no longer be a private filmmaker (in a Marxist-Socialist system) working for himself, he would be working for the Federal Government. He's not a dumb guy and rather intelligent actually but a lot of his facts are just wrong. Like when he says that America should move our economy towards France, because their services are all free, like health care, health insurance, education, transportation, pension, etc. He's simply dead wrong: none of those services are free, because the French either pay for them in taxes from the Federal Government there, or pay for them in fees in the private sector. 

Apparently Michael Moore never saw or read Milton Friedman's lecture about there's no such thing as a free lunch: we all pay for what we get or somebody pays for it for us. Mr. Moore is also wrong about the French health insurance and their health care system in general. They don't have a single-payer health care system that he would like to see in America. They have a public-private health care system that includes both their health care and health insurance. 

I don't believe Mr. Moore is a Marxist-Socialist for selfish reasons: I don't believe he would want the Federal Government being able to censor his movies. (For example) Can't blame him for that. I see Michael Moore as a Democratic Socialist, someone who believes that government especially the Federal Government should play a big role in providing services for people in society: health care, health insurance, education, pension, transportation, housing ,etc. Meaning the welfare state, because he believes yes, it's the right thing to do, but also so he can continue to make his own private movies.