He appears to pursue Lenin's goals. After dropping out of University of Michigan-Flint to pursue political activism, Moore started the Flint Voice, an alternative newspaper that became the Michigan Voice. Soon, he edited the radical-left Mother Jones magazine, where he was fired, supposedly for backing the communist Sandinista rebels.
The settlement money Moore received from Mother Jones directly financed "Roger and Me," a thinly veiled attack on capitalist corporations. By focusing on the suffering of the unemployed in Flint, Moore exploited their poverty for his personal gain -- and the expediency of his cause, like Lenin during the Russian famine.
Moore goes so far as to label corporate capitalism "economic terrorism" and office workers "the good Germans." Yet even while labeling himself a "working-class hero," Moore is an elitist, just as Lenin was. He is a self-described "multimillionaire" who despises the American public: "They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks."
Moore attempts to undermine the very system of American government. He doesn't just criticize President Bush. He labels him a dictator who "(hates) our Constitution, our rights and liberties." Much of his bile-filled "documentary," "Fahrenheit 9/11," is dedicated to bolstering the proposition that the 2000 election proves the absence of true American republicanism.
Like Lenin, Moore has twisted the war in Iraq into a club with which to beat the Bush administration. Moore gulps the communist Kool-Aid that imperialism is an inevitable side effect of capitalism. And just as Lenin did with World War I, Moore calls the war in Iraq a war of imperialist aggression: "I've never seen anything like Bush and his people. ... They have no shame in fighting for their corporate sponsors." Terrorists attempting to kill Americans in Iraq, he says, are not really terrorists at all: "They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
Moore isn't as dangerous as Lenin because American republicanism doesn't stand on as weak a foundation as did czarist Russia. Nevertheless, he is powerful. His invective has garnered him millions of dollars, millions of fans and a coveted seat next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention. The vitriol of his minions approaches the brink of violence. Moore seeks to undermine faith in American republicanism, capitalism and American foreign policy. Let there be no doubt: Michael Moore is a threat to the American way of life.