In 1998 Pope Bergoglio wrote “that the political and social system closest to the social doctrine of the catholic church was a socialism like the Cuban whenever the idea of God was added to him.”
Now if we can get our communist president to read the book and learn from it.
Bkmrk.
Marxism is based on a misintegrated mode of thought that is incompatible with reason,reality, and the nature of man.It will necessarily fail.
You linked the printer friendly version. Does the original have links to the referenced materials?
Read anything by David Horowitz. He was a red diaper baby but left communism when his friend was murdered by the Black Panthers. Horowitz knows where all the bodies are buried.
Tell a leftie how miserably socialism failed in USSR, Cuba, Maoist China, Eastern Europe, & the leftie will scream in reply,
“True socialism hasn’t been tried yet!!!”
communism was a theoretical blunder.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
In my experience, leftists systematically conflate "society" and government. This error is not new:SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Although not nearly as well known, I, Pencil (Leonard E. Read, 1958) is a minor classic in its own right, and it illustrates the fallacy of central planning superbly. It makes the point that there is no real delineation point between the various workings of society which - in the illustration of the pencil - enables and facilitates the production of a product which is nominally created by a single company, Eberhard Faber.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Note to Elizibeth Warren, Barak Obama - and, yes, Hillary Clinton - I did say, "society." And in saying that I emphatically did not mean, "government." Your "wonderful" government did indeed pave the roads, but it did not even decide where most of them went - people were making paths from time immemorial, and most roads followed paths delineated by society and merely improved by government. When you say, "you didn't build that," you neglect the actual work required even to maintain a business, let alone actually to build it. In the real world, neither society nor government knows what is needed until someone (e.g., Steve Jobs) puts it on offer. And delivers the goods at an attractive price. And - yes - draws attention to those goods, their desirable properties, and the terms on which they are available.