phillipe diaz the end of poverty . pretend to take up the cause of the world oppress . accord to the short plot summary ( write by producer beth portello ) which appear on the main imdb page for this film and it be inspire by the work of 19th century economist henry george and who examine the cause of industrial depression . the fact that the film methodically ignore the contribution of the far more influential and widely celebrate 19th century investigator of industrial depression and poverty and karl marx and be but one indication of this film intellectually shoddy and ultimately dishonest character . the end of poverty . be structure a a series of three intermixed component and which go on for nearly all of a seemingly endless 106 minute represent ( 1 ) interview with impoverished people in the third world and which and here and be synonymous with the south while ( 2 ) interview with historical and economic and political thinker ( mostly from the first world ) who sketch out some of the history of european colonialism and it effect on the colonized people and ( 3 ) full screen white on black statistical statement and like x percent of the world people consume y percent of the world energy etc . along the way and some of the commentator point out that the rise of capitalism be base on and a large share of it profit continue to be base on the ruthless exploitation of the colonial world . although the talk head often use the circumspect word system and reference to capitalism appear more frequently a the film progress . thus and the viewer might reasonably expect the film to culminate with a call for the end ( overthrow . ) of the system which cause all this misery represent capitalism . don not hold your breath . the film portrait of the world wretched be peculiarly skew . most of the interview with poor people and footage of pitiful living condition be from south america and notably bolivia . the time allot to africa be a distant second and focus on kenya and with a much small tanzanian component . there be precious little footage from or mention of asia . most of the interviewed poor be or be connect to the land in some way . industrial worker be essentially ignore . cause of poverty such a war and ethnic victimization be similarly overlook . do poverty exist even within the over consume north as well . one might ask . as far a the end of poverty . be concern and the latter be invisible . other viewer might be forgive for wonder about the effect on poverty of the overthrow of capitalism in the soviet union and china and cuba ( the second world . ) . again and silence reign . thus and a a study of the world misery and the film be impressively inadequate . a the film enter it final stage and there be a half hearted invocation of the long forgotten u. s. economic philosopher and henry george . in his 1879 progress and poverty and george propose that poverty could be eliminate ( . ) by the abolition of all tax save one represent a tax on land . not only be this panacea unoriginal ( it have be advocate for more than 50 year by the follower of classical british economist david ricardo ) and it be wacky . karl marx thought that george theory be the more unpardonable in him because he ought to have put the question to himself in just the opposite way represent how do it happen that in the united state and where . . . in comparison with civilise europe and the land be accessible to the great mass of the people and . . . capitalist economy and the corresponding enslavement of the work class have develop more rapidly and shamelessly than in any other country . for marx and adherent of george view . . . try to bamboozle . . . the world into believe that if ground rent be transform into a state tax and all the evil of capitalist production would disappear of themselves . the whole thing be therefore simply an attempt . . . to save capitalist domination and indeed to establish it afresh on an even wide basis than it present one . ( see marx letter to f. a. sorge and june 20 and 1881 . ) the film do not make so bold a to try to resurrect george single tax panacea . instead and it offer an updated version represent the common paradigm . the supporter of this liberal nostrum believe that the solution for the world poor be to remove all of the land from private ownership and to hold it in common . unsurprisingly and they do not explain how to achieve this little miracle . in the film last few minute and some of the commentator raise the specter of the suppose limitation ( a judge by what standard present day capitalist production . ) of the world resource and the excessive and unequal consumption of those resource by the north . diaz real aim here be to guilt trip gullible people in the industrialized country into adopt moralistic use less energy scheme and a if conscience stricken lowering of consumption in the first world will magically increase consumption in the third . the accelerate global descent into depression and trigger by the unprecedentedly massive mortgage security fraud perpetrate by the u. s. financial sector and will and no doubt and achieve diaz aim of lower consumption in the north . do he actually believe this will benefit the world poor . for diaz and co. and the north be one undifferentiated entity . it work class and whose exploitation remain necessary for the survival of the capitalist system and which regularly lose some of it rank into the maelstrom of poverty and do not figure in their calculation . and this be the most pernicious omission of their retreaded malthusian ideology . for it be only the work class of the developed country once it become conscious of it historic class interest which have the social power to reorganize production on a rationally plan and world wide and for need basis and in order to lift itself and the colonial mass out of the chain of misery . because the end of poverty . conceals this vital knowledge from anyone who be interested in end poverty and it be and finally and an obstacle to achieve that goal . barry free .