I will start by saying I didn't feel this film was some mastermind propaganda film to convert you to socialism. However if you are right leaning or far right you are probably going to disagree with me on that.
The film doesn't spew a bunch of leftist or liberal talking points for 80 minutes. Rather it tries to shine some light on the history of socialism, and leftism as a whole but particularly in America. Laying out the factual events in history that people both on the left and right would agree are morally good, actually have roots in socialism, or leftist ideology. So to equate any form of socialistic thought with the USSR or poverty and hardship is just illogical and oblivious to history.
The movie brings many collegiate historians and people who identify as socialist, in order to state some points which from an objective point of view should be universally accepted, but aren't because of the McCarthyism and red scare era politics that has been engrained into most American's brains.
The film doesn't spew a bunch of leftist or liberal talking points for 80 minutes. Rather it tries to shine some light on the history of socialism, and leftism as a whole but particularly in America. Laying out the factual events in history that people both on the left and right would agree are morally good, actually have roots in socialism, or leftist ideology. So to equate any form of socialistic thought with the USSR or poverty and hardship is just illogical and oblivious to history.
The movie brings many collegiate historians and people who identify as socialist, in order to state some points which from an objective point of view should be universally accepted, but aren't because of the McCarthyism and red scare era politics that has been engrained into most American's brains.