Gordon Gekko on Twitter

  • What made the original Wall Street movie a classic is that, despite Oliver Stone's liberalism, he created a character in Gorden Gekko who was a genuine advocate of capitalism, even if he personally represented the less attractive side of capitalism. The greed is good speech is fair and accurate, because greed is really the desire for more, and it is a motivator.

    Now, 30 years later, Oliver Stone has become a marxist who loves Hugo chavez, and advocated that the US government nationalize the oil industry like chavez did, which is no small point, as it was the shrugging of capitalists in Venezuela that resulted in Chavez cracking down with violence and nationalization of the oil industry... and the flight of the best and brightest resulting in the dea spiral the country is now in....

    And this new movie, im afraid, is going to be knocking down a strawman with capitalism painted on his chest. This Gekko Twitter account doesn't seem to really even be trying to channel gekko. At least compared to the original.