By Jarrett Skorup
November 3, 2009

“Love him or hate him, or his films, there’s no question about where Michael Moore stands ideologically: Left-wing, ‘progressive,’ populist, socialist. In some ways Moore’s newest film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story,’ muddies the water. But in the end, all it really shows is that Michael Moore doesn’t actually know what capitalism is.” In “Capitalist Excess? A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’” (670 words), Grove City College alum (Class of ‘09) and research intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy—Jarrett Skorup—lays out his critique of Moore’s latest cinematic creation and suggests that it “needs a new title. Perhaps something like, ‘Corporatism: What the Left Thinks Capitalism Is.’” While capitalist excess is clearly this movie’s villain, Mr. Skorup is hopeful that Mr. Moore “will expand on the theme with films on the excesses of non-capitalist systems” to woo theatergoers, such as the “Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (two million murdered), the Soviet Union (65 million dead), Communist China (70 million dead), and so on. Now, those are some excesses, and gripping ones at that.”