Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 documentary film starring, written and directed byAmerican filmmaker Michael Moore.

Focusing primarily on the events following the2000 sub-prime crisis, the behavior of the US Government and corporations in responseto it, Wall Streets Casino Culture, even including a segment that explores the questionas to whether Jesus would have been a capitalist (satiring US right-wing politicalculture), the film puts these events in the context of a critique of western capitalism.The film retains Moores typical style of satirical and over-the-top-funny documentation but delivering hard-hitting ad thought-provoking criticism. The films tone, set by theopening scene depicting a bank robbery, is that of exploring the plundering nature of modern day capitalism-driving the ecology, economy and living standards of the workingclass to the brink- and contrasting it with the optimistic view of capitalism that was prevalent in post-WW2 US during the Golden Age of Capitalism of the 50s to the late60s.The film is unequivocal in its message and theme: Anti-Capitalism. Moores treatment of the theme involves- discussing various seemingly isolated and distinct cases of corporatemalfeasance and linking them to the inherent nature of a business(functioning in acapitalist economy) through highlighting the uniformity of the corporations responses toand their initial intentions in perpetrating these events; highlighting the profoundlyconvoluted practices on which the financial industry((backbone of modern capitalism))runs, made so precisely to keep them inexplicable to the public on whose taxes theindustry was bailed out and most importantly the inherent unreliability of the capitalistincentive- unlimited pursuit of personal profit as a means to achieve societal wellbeing.Although this idea((anti-capitalism)) had regressed from the mainstream in the Westsince WW2, where a general consensus was assumed in accepting capitalism as not onlythe only working option but also a natural inevitability; economic crises of the last fewdecades, realization of ecological devastation, declining living standards among theWestern working class characterized by perennial debt-pressure and uncertaintyregarding employment has led to this idea again becoming popular among a marginal butdedicated section of activists and the public. An important reflection of this is theeruption of the anti-austerity indignations movements in Spain and Greece andOccupy protests in North America in 2010 and 2011 respectivelythe latter put incomeinequality, in US in particular and the West in general, among leading public concernswith its slogan We Are the 99% [2] . An important aspect of Anti-Capitalism has been that it has no theoretical classification,it is not an ideology as it doesnt advocate or favor any form of social design, neither does it propose any model to explain the state of present politics and economy.Fundamentally it is but a simple rejection of a socioeconomic order (capitalism), seekingto replace it with something else, deriving not from any theoretical model but fromempirical observation of the unsuitability of Capitalism. As such a spectrum of ideas and movements may be labeled anti-capitalist. In Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore doesnot go as far as to suggest any alternative to capitalism but concludes that any suchalternative can only be legitimately achieved through real democracy, where people andcommunities are genuinely free to participate and arrive at solutions.