Oliver Stone: US should nationalize film industry — Yahoo! News
LONDON – The propaganda power of the movies shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its movie industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday. The Academy Award-winning director of “Born on the Fourth of July” and “JFK” said that Hollywood wealth and power was too important to be left in private hands, telling journalists in central London that movies “belong to the people.”
Oh, sorry, I got that wrong. Here is what Comrade Ollie actually said:
Oliver Stone: US should nationalize oil resources — Yahoo! News
LONDON – The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday. The Academy Award-winning director of “Born on the Fourth of July” and “JFK” said that America’s country’s natural wealth was too important to be left in private hands, telling journalists in central London that oil and other natural resources “belong to the people.”
cross-posted from the LewRockwell.com blog
The whole idea that if something is in the hands of the government is synonomous with the people is Hegallian. It assumes that the people are the state and anything outside the state is not 'the people'. I personally assume that if it belongs to one person and is allowed to be traded to another person freely among people who compose society then it is 'the peoples' but if you put it in the hands of the state the people will never be able to touch it again.