If Liz were Queen

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY’ - In Theaters October 2nd

“It’s a crime story. But it’s also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it’s also a love story. Only it’s about an abusive relationship.

“It’s not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make.

“It’s a comedy.” — Michael Moore

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QUEEN’S ADDENDUM FROM DICK MEISTER:

” . . . Capitalism by its very nature has a primitive and terrifying power. It was never designed for the advance of working people. It was designed for the accumulation of profit by the entrepreneurs who direct capitalism….

You can’t bring the barbarians to book by the bargaining table alone. You will bring them to book by democratic - small “d” democratic - political action. . . There are worthy individual employers, but capitalism doesn’t move with individual employers who are good or bad. It moves as a collective -a collective always hostile to labor. The only way workers can survive against this capitalistic onslaught is through unions and political liberalism. . . “