Socialism will send America into a horrifying 1984- like existence

[Michie]

The demagogues promising Heaven on Earth? They are the ones most likely to put you in a concentration camp ot a mass grave.

Socialism will send America into a horrifying 1984-like existence

 

[Sam91]

A classmate and I were talking to each other just yesterday about American's reactions to anything negative said about capitalism or anything slightly like socialism. To us it is really surprising. My friend's American friend went a bit OTT because my friend mentioned what he was learning in Sociology.

Is it a hangover to the McCarthy era and the reaction to the cold war? I really don't understand the reaction among Christian's because socialism (not communism) is much more in line with the set up of the early Church and Jesus' teachings.

 

[Michie]

A classmate and I were talking to each other just yesterday about American's reactions to anything negative said about capitalism or anything slightly like socialism. To us it is really surprising. My friend's American friend went a bit OTT because my friend mentioned what he was learning in Sociology.

Is it a hangover to the McCarthy era and the reaction to the cold war? I really don't understand the reaction among Christian's because socialism (not communism) is much more in line with the set up of the early Church and Jesus' teachings.

Well I think the article basically explains it. And the Catholic Church teaches against socialism.

 

[Michie]

Can a Catholic Be a Capitalist?

 

[Michie]

Socialism is so Hot Right Now! Must be the Solution | Defenders of the Catholic Faith | Hosted by Stephen K. Ray

 

[Michie]

Dear Bernie Sanders: I survived socialism. It’s the worst political system ever invented

 

[Michie]

The old and new socialism of Bernie Sanders: Should Catholics support it?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Socialism is fine for a wealthy, highly educated, well organized society. America is still the wild, wild west in many ways; the land of rugged individualism. Socialism is a bad fit for us.

 

[royal priest]

A classmate and I were talking to each other just yesterday about American's reactions to anything negative said about capitalism or anything slightly like socialism. To us it is really surprising. My friend's American friend went a bit OTT because my friend mentioned what he was learning in Sociology.

Is it a hangover to the McCarthy era and the reaction to the cold war? I really don't understand the reaction among Christian's because socialism (not communism) is much more in line with the set up of the early Church and Jesus' teachings.

Many people came to America in order to escape socialism.
The set up in Jerusalem was a temporary effort to disciple the Hellenistic Jews before they returned to the countries they had travelled from.

 

[Sam91]

Can a Catholic Be a Capitalist?

Ah we are in the OBOB forum. I've read the article and I won't debate. It. I didn't realise Catholics were against Socialism. Thanks.

 

[Michie]

Ah we are in the OBOB forum. I've read the article and I won't debate. It. I didn't realise Catholics were against Socialism. Thanks.

Sam, no worries. You did not do anything wrong.

 

[Salvadore]

I do not think our country can afford the things Bernie is proposing unless death panels are put in place. That would not surprise me. Sarah Palin tried to warn us.

 

[Silmarien]

Well I think the article basically explains it. And the Catholic Church teaches against socialism.

My major concern here is that the definition of socialism has shifted somewhat over the past 60 years. The old socialist parties in Europe that were founded by Marxists are now center-left parties advocating for mixed economies, but they're still called socialists. I think standard social democracy is actually significantly less radical than Catholic distributism is (which some people also consider a form of libertarian socialism), so a wholesale condemnation of anything that can be accused of being socialism seems odd to me.