A new documentary with that title is set to be released in the U.S. this November. You can watch the trailer here. I would recommend that you do so, and also take note of the summary provided, and, in it, the phrase “This system was carefully built and maintained by the free market policies…”
I am with the documentarians up until this point.
Yes, poverty is bad.
Yes, this system is a failure.
Here’s where we part ways:
This system is not a free market.
This system is one that denies the free market from performing the tasks necessary to reduce poverty. The IMF is a not a “free market” organization, and instead of promoting free market ideals, they tend to promote corporatism and virtual debt-slavery.
The folks who made this documentary have their hearts in the right place. They can recognize that this system is a failure, but it seems they do not understand the reasons behind the failure well enough to adequately criticize or make suggestions for adjustment. It would seem that they believe the corporatists and the bankers when they tell us that they are the advocates of a “free market,” when in actuality they are advocates of just the opposite: centralization of control. That intelligent and thoughtful people get confused by this doublespeak is a serious and deeply troubling issue. It means that they associate anything labeled “free market” with the “free market” ideas proposed by the thieves, and thus they block out any information relating to true capitalism’s ability to provide for widespread prosperity, and they end up concluding that we must move away from anything with those names (“free market,” “capitalism”). This creates a warped intellectual environment that cannot adequately address social problems (try as we might, we just can’t make these redistribution systems work well for all of humanity), and eventually this only reinforces the anti-intellectual attitude among the population at large.
Moving away from a true capitalist/free market system is exactly what the thieves want, because they are not actually advocating liberty, they are advocating for the centralization of power and calling it “liberty.” When people get behind anti-capitalist ideas (whether they be branded socialism, social democracy, fascism, national socialism, our very own faux-“capitalism,” etc.), these thieves are secretly pretty happy with that, because they are actually anti-capitalist as well.
In this world there are only two real political directions, there is liberty and there is tyranny. One step in either direction is a step away from the other. One step away from liberty is one toward the centralization of power, and the only real power in this world is economic power. The centralization of economic power means just one thing: those with the unfair advantage of control over money and resources (provided to them through the state, in every case, whether they be a political party member, a bureaucrat, a senator, or the owner of a telephone, water, oil, or other protected monopoly) will control us all.
