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Old 08-28-2007, 10:55 PM   #5
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I read a little while back that a lot of the hard-core lefties didn't like it. Did a search and found the article below. I didn't know, outside of Madison and Berkeley, there were still guys like this around...a true socialist, who doesn't like Moore's watered-down “quasi-socialist, populist notions”.

"The film relies, as we noted in the original review, on personal anecdote. Why couldn’t a right-wing director make a film composed of interviews with thoroughly satisfied health insurance company clients in the US and thoroughly dissatisfied Europeans and Canadians? What would that prove?

Crudity is never excusable. “A pockmarked art,” it was pointed out many years ago, “is no art and is therefore not necessary to the working masses. Those who believe in a ‘pock-marked’ art are imbued to a considerable extent with contempt for the masses” (Trotsky)."

interesting read...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/ju...moor-j14.shtml

Comrade's movie review:
"Michael Moore’s Sicko: very limited conceptions, very limited results"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/ju...sick-j07.shtml
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