Meltdown documentary shows French teaching us how to do a workers revolt

[RGacky3]

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/meltdown/

Its a GREAT documentary about the global financial crisis, very balanced.

But my favoate part was in part 3, where they show the reaction in France, workers stopping a tire plant from closing by taking over the management office, and tearing it up, workers at catipiller kidnapping their bosses, and forcing them to negotiate. They also talk about Canadian occupations and French occupations.

THIS is how you get stuff done, if the bourgeouis is'nt scared shitless of the working class, they won't give an inch.

Overall though its an interesting documentary, and I learned new things, like the UK put the main icelandic bank on its terrorist list so they could freeze their assets.

I recomend it to everyone. Its not a leftist documentary at all, and its very balanced.

[RGacky3]

One thing I liked about the documentery, was in the first 2 parts, they showed the bankers and interviewed some of them, it puts a human face on them. I think its a real fallacy to blame "greed" or the "greedy bankers," they were acting in not only their self interest, but infact in the interest of their survival, when you have such perverse incentives as exists in Capitalism, ANYone in the position of financial power is going to follow those incentives.

You can't just re-start the system and do it again, Capitalism has to be ended and replaced with a humane and sane system.

Also the libertarian idea that you could have just done nothing and left the market alone and everything would have been find is just insane, if you see how interconnected the banks are, now internconnected the corporations are with the banks and with each other, doing nothing would essencially have destroyed the whole economic system worse than it happened now, but doing the "stimulus" solution only adds some gasoline to a fire that is burning out.

Awesome documentary, and I love how it has a section of it on how people in different countries fought back.

[Yuppie Grinder]

sounds cool