Author Topic: Create Benedict XVI says Capitalism is a sin, communism is OK (Read 2368 times)

rowsofvoices9 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2011, 03:56:00 PM »

Both Capitalism and Communism were invented by the same criminal gang and are really just two sides of the same coin. Ultimately all the wealth and power end up in the hands of a very few.

gunfighter · « **Reply #6 on:** December 03, 2011, 05:28:56 PM »

Quote from: rowsofvoices9

Both Capitalism and Communism were invented by the same criminal gang and are really just two sides of the same coin. Ultimately all the wealth and power end up in the hands of a very few.

Very true.

s2srea · « **Reply #7 on:** December 03, 2011, 05:38:32 PM »

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Capitalism is a sin. So is Socialism and Communism. The proper political philosophy for Catholics loyal to the teachings of the Magisterium is called Distributism. I suggest you look at the life and writings of Dorothy Day and peruse a website called Distributist Review.

Interesting Pax, I'm going to look into it, thanks!

Raoul76 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 03, 2011, 05:49:49 PM »

Ridiculous. When has the Catholic Church ever ONCE used the word Distributism?

Another victim of GK Chesterton and these British Edwardian Catholics.

Capitalism is the way it has always been done in Catholic Europe. But it is capitalism that is kept in check by a strong government.

People here are confusing "capitalism" with "economic liberalism." The Church is against economic liberalism; not against capitalism.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 03, 2011, 05:54:19 PM »

Wikipedia said:

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Distributism's philosophical origins can be traced to the same 19th-century roots as socialism, as a reaction against the perceived inequalities and misery of high capitalism in late Victorian England.

This is another threat just like far-right statist Catholicism. Something else for me to read up on, because I see where this is going, and it isn't good. It sounds like masked socialism to me.

One of the ways the devil hooks people is to give them an extreme reaction to an extreme problem. But just because capitalism was abused is no reason to fall for this trap. The answer is a strong Church, charity, and alms for the poor, not some kind of idealistic chimera. The problems of the world won't be solved by dry intellectuals and their big ideas, it will be solved by charity, and by the Restoration of the Church.

P.S. The Robespierre-praising, French-Revolution-loving Chesterton is a dangerous figure and is greatly overrated.