Yes, It Was “Real Socialism.” No, We Shouldn’t Try Again

[StudentMI]

It lacks practical value only if you believe words and practical examples have no meaning.

 

[Rau]

It lacks practical value only if you believe words and practical examples have no meaning.

It lacks practical value because it is misapplied. In the real world most economies are mixed. There are socialist policies in the us system and that can be fine even for one who favours capitalist principles generally.

 

[Motherwit]

StudentMI:

It lacks practical value only if you believe words and practical examples have no meaning.

It lacks practical value because it is misapplied. In the real world most economies are mixed. There are socialist policies in the us system and that can be fine even for one who favours capitalist principles generally.

Case in point, affordable health care where no person falls through cracks. The principle that basic health care is a human right is often called socialist but a Catholic/Christian regards it as biblical and a basic moral principle.

 

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Does Catholicism Support Socialism? | Catholic Answers Q&A

No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist (Pius XI’s Q uadragesimo Anno , 120).
The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with “communism” or “socialism” ( Catechism , 2425).
Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum explicitly rejects several main tenants of socialism.