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Everyone's a critic with 20/20 hindsight.

Ahem. Yes. Perhaps you should read his 1985 paper on the deterministic folly of socialism and the requirement for morality in the free market.

Something tells me you should have dictionary handy when you do.

Ahem. Yes. Perhaps you should read his 1985 paper on the deterministic folly of socialism and the requirement for morality in the free market. Something tells me you should have dictionary handy when you do.

You mean the one covered in this thread?
The Pope predicted economic Armageddon back in 1985

This reminds one of Max Weber's thesis about the inner connection between capitalism and Calvinism, between the formation of the economic order and the determining religious idea. Marx's notion seems to be almost inverted: it is not the economy that produces religious notions, but the fundamental religious orientation that decides which economic system can develop. The notion that only Protestantism can bring forth a free economy — whereas Catholicism includes no corresponding education to freedom and to the self-discipline necessary to it, favoring authoritarian systems instead — is doubtless even today still very widespread, and much in recent history seems to speak for it.
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Market Economy and Ethics, 1985

“Ahem. Yes. Perhaps you should read his 1985 paper on the deterministic folly of socialism and the requirement for morality in the free market. Something tells me you should have dictionary handy when you do.”

It was brillintly done! That writing was ten miles deep and broached subject matter I never even considered. Too bad many did not heed his warnings then...we might not be in the mess we are in today, if some had.