More Pro-Capitalist Propaganda from the Archives
by T.L. James | 10:01 pm, July 13, 2009 | Comments Off
A fine little cartoon from the Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive: Make Mine Freedom (1948)
Watch as the silver-tongued snake-oil salesman for “ISM” (and you know which “-ism” he’s talking about) makes his sales pitch to a bunch of squabbling citizens, and then is taken to task over the “fine print” in his bargain offer:
It’s hard to imagine such a film being produced today, especially for the middle/high school demographic at which it appears to be aimed. At the very least, it would be criticized for presenting a far too rosy picture of the benefits of capitalism while ignoring the terrible, horrible, awful consequences all that prosperity and plenty has inflicted on the natural environment and the social landscape. Balancing material would be required, highlighting capitalism’s irredeemable history of despoiling the sacred and unspoilt wilderness for profit while stealing the masses away from their happy if short-lived poverty and spiritually rewarding if physically crushing manual drudgery and forcing them into the wage slavery of the modern factory or the veal fattening pens of the white-collar cube farm.
And of course, the sterotypical villain would be right out.
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