Is Capitalism Diabolic?

Townhall.com ^ | July 14, 2015 | Pat Buchanan

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Greed, avarice and the idolatry of money are certainly diabolical. Who would dispute that

Randians, libertarians, satanists. It seems that Pat Buchanan would too.

so want does that have to do with Capitalism..

That's a good question and we should ask Pat Buchanan. He seems to think that capitalism is synonymous with greed and idolatry of money. Something like so:

The Pope says greed, avarice and the idolatry of money is the dung of the devil.

Capitalism is synonymous with greed, avarice and the idolatry of money,

Therefore the Pope is saying that capitalism is the dung of the devil.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[The Pope needs to read Adam Smiths’ “The Theory of Moral Sentiments.”]

ADAM SMITH: The rich only select from the heap what is most precious and agreeable. They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.