You’d surely have to admit that fellows like Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Tsetung sure gave communism a bad name. I don’t recall any leaders of economically free nations slaughtering thousands upon thousands of their own peoples. Do you? The robber baron family of North Korea seems to be doing an equally great job of keeping their citizens impoverished too. Unlike the owners of capital who, down through the centuries, gave economic opportunities to the working classes.
As a left wing nationalist I suppose you’d support the likes of Tito, the Ba’ath party in Syria and the Basque separatist movement in Spain. The trouble with left wing nationalist movements is that they always manifest themselves as authoritarian and we end up with the likes of Stalin all over again.
None of these approaches to politics and economics has ever resulted in making a nation, or even a tribe, very well off. Unlike capitalism, which has given the planet the capacity to support more people than anyone ever dreamt possible and with a standard of living the ancients could never have imagined.
Catholicism and capitalism fit together perfectly. Each allows the human person to flourish, unimpeded by dictatorial despots of the ilk that communism, socialism and other left wing crackpot ideologies have shown they can throw up.
actually all of those dictators you mentioned were state socialists (something i dont support). state socialism is akin to capitalism, in the fact that under both systems, all the wealth gets concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. thus economic stangnation occurs, in both instances the means of production will evetually be controlled by a single monopoly. so state socialism=capitalism ironically.
when i said i was a left-wing nationalist, i was talking about National Socialism and fascism. (im not a racist though) but these types of socialism have been proven to work perfectly. national socialism teaches that capital should be the servant of the people. therefore it treats the economy as a means to an end. its final goal is a classless society.
and no offense, but i think you need to take a look at history, because capitalism certainly HAS NOT provided “prosperity”. look at the 1800s, child labour, no overtime, horrible working conditions, no minimum wage, an employer could fire an employee at will. would you really want to go back to those times? even today the worklers are taken advantage of, an employer can decide to ship your jobs off to china or india, and the next day youre left jobless and pretty soon homeless, because you wont be able to keep up with the interest rates on your mortgage, courtesy of your capitalist banking system. not to mention youre left without healthcare either
the problem with capitaism is that its based on self-interest, it does not consider whats best for the nation as a whole, the capitalist only cares about his own selfish goals.
capitalism is incompatible with catholicism, as Jesus condems such practices, he said “if you have money, do not lend it at interest, instead give it to someone from who you cannot get it back”, not to mention the early christians held everything in common ownership. furthermore your reasoning is flawed, because you think that capitalists are actually religious, when in fact they are spiritual atheists. they delude themselves into thinking they are justified when they lay off workers, outsource jobs, lower wages, etc. so religion means nothing to a capitalist.
