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I think it might have been in another thread where I was trying to come up with some. I think the stock market's way of giving more vote to people with more money is a particularly capitalist fail.
Isn't that arguably how every system has worked? Say we're going back a couple centuries - power mostly lied with banks and those who already had money, since their loans were important for many businesses. Look for example at the Fugger family - incredibly rich bankers with control over much of the European economy, and they were literally venture capitalists in the 15th & 16th century. Money has always given people leverage, the stock market is just a codified form (that still isn't fully equal due to different kinds of shares, so really no different from previous power structures).
Yeah, I pretty much agree. Every system has a manner of "be subjected to the process or the weather".
So there literally can't be anti-capitalist art, as capitalism has no unique defining features, and only art focusing on those features can be anti-capitalist, right?
I mean, you can attack capitalism with an irrelevant argument and call it an attack on capitalism, but it won't be a very good attack. It's like me trying to say Johnny Cash songs are bad because he's ugly.
Saying capitalism is bad because the people in charge are abusive doesn't help in pointing out why we shouldn't use capitalism. Kings and whatever communist leaders are called can also be abusive and it's not because their system is inherently bad.
My point is that a weak argument can hardly be called "the greatest anti capitalist movie".