Capitalism is evil.

Or so says Michael Moore in his new film, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The film documents the rise of the richest 1 percent in America.

The movie features a leaked Citigroup report initially given to its wealthiest clients. It said America has become a plutonomy, or an economy where the wealthy control everything and whose purpose is to create more wealth for them. The report said the rich will get so much wealthier that it recommends buying stocks in luxury good companies, like the Four Seasons Hotels and Porsche.

Are corporations the only entities who can get greedy? No. Moore opens his film with bank robbery footage, if only to set them up as small potatoes. The real criminals of his film own those places.

Nothing in this movie will make political die-hards change their minds about Moore. But he does make an interesting call to the bottom 99 percent income bracket: revolt.

But Moore’s revolts and revolutions look much different than the suggested revolutions from the right.

While Moore has said Americans can revolt in nonviolent ways, conservative ideas of insurrection sound more like the beginning of a new civil war.

“Capitalism” highlights worker strikes and collectively-owned businesses as examples of a backlash against the system.

The new right-wing demonstrations contain a more violent tone. It’s evident in protest signs threatening the use of firearms, a pastor praying for President Barack Obama’s death or a columnist saying a military coup is a possible solution to the “Obama problem.” There was even a Facebook poll asking whether or not the president should be assassinated.

Republicans have always supported gun control as a means of self-defense, which should not include overthrowing a government because they didn’t win the elections.

Which brings up another difference: Moore believes in democracy as a means of revolution. Obama was elected with the majority of the votes, but Tea Party protestors made it sound as if he stole it with a Supreme Court decision.

Conservative radicals have multiple reasons to hate Obama, ranging from him being socialist to a secret Muslim. Even if they’re right, so what?

Socialism is not against the law, and America is not a Christian nation, made clear by the First Amendment.

Moore’s revolutionary warriors rebel against the unelected: CEOs, lending institutions, Wall Street traders. Conservatives advocating the use of firearms or the military against a fairly elected government is anti-democracy and ,dare I say, anti-American.

The Constitution is the basis of our society, not Barron’s magazine.

There are groups such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Klu Klux Klan, but those are terrorists. Violent behavior defines them.

The difference arises in the behavior of the fringes that the FBI doesn’t watch. It’s believing a president allowed 9/11 to kill thousands of people versus believing the president is the Antichrist who will kill everyone, between believing someone has done something evil and believing someone is the biblical embodiment of evil.

Liberals had our eight years in the dark, and there were no major casualties. Let’s keep it that way.

Reach Chris at cogino@asu.edu.