Capitalism (1948)

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Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! In this one, a group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just what capitalism is, seizing onto the example of the butcher who supplies the weenies for their picnic. A bona fide capitalism love-in! Weenie references fly fast and furious here.

Capitalism is one of many "free-enterprise education" films released in the first few years of the Cold War. Unlike many films produced under corporate sponsorship, it avoids taking jabs at socialism, Russia or New Deal government programs. Nonetheless, it uses the common Coronet device of showing a group collectively engaged in coming to terms with an idea -- a process with predetermined conclusions. In this respect, I imagine that it's not so different from Soviet educational films.

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  News & Politics

[Roland Petit]

Faces and places change over time but it's really always the same game and it ain't never gonna change. The only hope for a sane existence is to be born at a cycle of relative lull in the repeating cycles.

[Roland Petit]

It don't matter what the name of the system is, capitalism, socialism, commyism, freedomism, nadirism, utopianism, democratism, fascistism, eventually ordinary people are as the system "progresses" gonna get screwed. It only a matter of how fast as a function of time the psychopaths wrangle a stranglehold on ANY given system.

[Roland Petit]

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[bassheadd]

"we needed weenies. mr brown had weenies. it's as simple as that."

[Ridentem Humanus]

arent all governments corrupt based on the definition of people ruling us? anarchys not better, but no matter what, we are pretty much screwed

[Averyusdumb12]

im being forced to watch this HHHEEEEELP!

[cjadream7]

Perhaps it's because the gov't has their hand in something where it shouldn't be. If you need something that I have, you buy it from me, and yes I receive money for it. What would be the problem w/ that? The problem is over-regulation by gov't and ppl upset b/c another person's making money. Now, there r indeed ppl who abuse this system; I think the blame should be placed on those ppl and not the system.

[KbcBerlin]

No one hates your so called "freedom " they do hate your ignorant stupidity, You can grow up and join civilisation or you can stay in your dumb peasant fantasy play pen.