Marxism and all (state) collectivism is predicated on humanist assumptions (see tagline).
These assumptions are that elite humans are capable of making superior decisions - decisions about how people live their lives, better than the people actually living those live. They substitute their goals for the goals of the individual. They don’t believe God will take care of the bigger plan when people take care of their own business. They believe that a superior human must invoke the bigger plan.
But this encyclical doesn’t talk about the state. In fact it says directly
“The Church does not have technical solutions to offer[10] and does not claim “to interfere in any way in the politics of States.”[11]”
“They don’t believe God will take care of the bigger plan when people take care of their own business.”
Exactly.
No-one has the capability to take care of everyone - or even worry about everyone. To think so is to think that person a God.
So it is better for every little person to take care of himself and his own, rather than meddle in the affairs of a person halfway round the world of whom they know nothing.
“They don’t believe God will take care of the bigger plan when people take care of their own business.”
Exactly.
No-one has the capability to take care of everyone - or even worry about everyone. To think so is to think that person a God.
So it is better for every little person to take care of himself and his own, rather than meddle in the affairs of a person halfway round the world of whom he knows nothing.