Posted on 09/22/2018 2:54:31 PM PDT by ebb tide
yes, Francis does indeed appear (from afar, anyway) to be the church’s Obama...someone trying to tear her apart from within
i do believe he will not be successful, however
True.
It is an unfortunate tendency to treat Marx as some sort of defining point, and everything is either Marxist or not.
Marx was just one political theorist, and there was a left wing and there were statist systems before Marx and after him, that owed him nothing.
There are innumerable bad ideas that didn’t come from Marx.
Didn’t he seek to nationalize the banks, and other industry?
Plus, "Der Spiegel" is one of the most widely circulated mags in Europe, left-liberal, roughly comparable to Time or Newsweek (but more influential).
For "Der Spiegel" to say this is OMG level.
"Tio Juan, This is totally unacceptable!" he emoted. "You agree with diametrically opposed positions, you pretend you're on everybody's side. This is so wrong!"
And Tio Juan nodded sagely and replied, "You're absolutely right."
Yes, although this was more about national self-determination than about marxist creation of the international proletariat.
Many large companies were foreign-owned. As well, the government saw itself more as the intermediary between the corporate class and labor, rather than the creator of a classless society.
In the genealogy of really bad ideas, communism and marxism, and various forms of fascism, corporatism, national socialism, Peronism, etc., are related in various ways (Mussolini was originally a communist, after all), but they aren’t all the same, and they don’t all draw entirely from the same sources.
Yes, I am quite familiar with the differences between fascism, socialism, and communism. Marxism, in a nutshell, is just the theory that capitalism must give way to socialism, which must give way to communism (which Marx saw as the purest form of socialism). Stalinism and Leninism are both communist ideals, but with a different power structure. Fascism is a form of socialism but allows for some private industry, but that private industry can only produce what the state tells it to produce, and how much, and can only charge what the state says it can charge. All in all they are ALL nightmarish concepts. Give me capitalism any day.
But, you know what? I may have been thinking of Allende in Chile instead of Peron in Argentina.
Well, I prefer the broader term “typical Jesuit left wing hack,” but your more precise description is serviceable as well
"19 page full report, headlined “Thou shalt not lie” and subtitled “The silence of the shepherds”, attacks the Pope’s handling of the abuse crisis and his attempted Church reforms."
Really, it's shameful, and yet I feel a grim satisfaction, even gratitude. I hope my reaction is a legitimate part of being one who "hungers and thirsts for justice", because I am convinced this unfaithful Pope needs to have his misdeeds exposed.
I hope it is for the best, this uncovering of evil at the highest spot in the Church.
I hope in the end he is repentant. Isn't that what I would want for myself?
Pray for Pope Francis; for his downfall and his salvation.
I hope in the end he is repentant. Isn't that what I would want for myself?
Pray for Pope Francis; for his downfall and his salvation.
Exactly the sort of behavior discussed in Romans 12:19-21.
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