Nietzscheiswrong: In Latin America this is history, Che Guevara a jewish (his mother was jewish) ,marxist atheist coupled with another jewish marxist atheist Fidel Castro "liberated" cuba from imperialism and corruption in such a great manner that the Cubans were better off before than they are now in 2011.
Communist heaven on earth - paradise for proletarians is the greatest scam and myth ever devised in socio-economic and political spheres.
Economically it is a complete disaster. Socially it is rhetoric and sentimentalism used to hook up gullible poor people who think of it as a savior when what it really does is to concentrate the property in the hands of the state-the few elite in a much more barbaric and despotic way than capitalism. At least in capitalism one can own private property.
Not just that it prospers in extremely poor, uneducated and rural societies. People who fall for the hoax either believe in the myth that politicians and those in power are good and care for the poor and the people on a whole or they want everyone else who isn't as poor as them to be as poor as them. Because communism is leveling conditions down and not leveling them up.
It is for greater equality. The non elites must be all poor in the same way.
When we look at our fridges, pcs, hd tvs, dvd players, iphones, ipods etc lets remember that its thanks to capitalism that we got them!! If we were under a communist regime we wouldn't have them. No one would have invented them.
The church should stop having an atavic fear of money based on franciscan "theology" - the devil's dirt. And other such nonsense. Without it the church would not exist either. The church has always been where the money was and the power was until the French Revolution objectively.
It should bless capitalism and demonize communism once and for all. Capitalism is the only opposition to communism. There aint another on the planet. Its either one or the other. Where there is communism the church disappears. Look at USSR and China. Or Cuba.Or North Korea. Or speak to any marxist left wing atheist...
It was Marx who once described the Jewish God as "money", and the Jewish people as "hucksters". The hatred for the Jew is not limited to the Hitler types, but is a tradition long passed down by the fathers of revolution. There you can see the irony of your post.
It was not capitalism that did what you have described, though I myself prefer it. It was God who made it possible. It is righteousness that a man must first seek, and then from there all things proceed naturally (happiness, fruitfulness, money, success, honor). The righteous man does not seek after money or worldly possessions as his priority, he first seeks to improve his own soul. And when the man experiences hardship, he is unhurt because he trusts in the Spiritual over the Material. He knows where real worth is, so he passes peacefully from hardship to fruitfulness and back to hardship again. He lives his life according to a higher law, understanding that the present world is nothing. The system that has succeeded so well in the United States flowed naturally from righteous men and women, their laws and their justice. That is not to say that the United States is perfect, as no creation of man is perfect; however, the United States has a free system only because it has a Christian culture that values the individual, his rights, his property, his dreams and successes (both temporal and eternal). It was from the virtue of so many that success and freedom flowed.
In the present age, belief in God has fallen and, with it, a belief in absolute truths. Business practices are selfish, shortsighted and foolish; politicians are corrupt, they do not lead, they do not love their country, and they are also shortsighted; teachers do not teach, or they teach people to be stupid. It's like in King Lear, where Kings do not rule, Fools are wise, and honest men are beggars. Everything increases in disorder until collapse. Since no one believes in anything, everything loses its value in their sight.
The Socialist's problem, and your problem as well, is in this state of mind that thinks that the solution is in material things first. Laws to govern men are useless if men do not respect the laws. What's the point of a law when the individual is the only law people recognize? (A good example is Chavez, who respects no law except himself!) You are thinking in "systems", in -isms and mechanical forces. You think that capitalism did this and that, but capitalism has no mind or force of its own. While capitalism is the natural system, it is no good without righteous men. Godless men produce godless things, using their power to gain more power. This is easy to see in the communist, as all the most horrid communist leaders have also been the most criminal and vain. While claiming to be "for the people", the communist creates a system where the individual or a few individuals wield absolute power. However, we cannot think that a man is better by simply being a capitalist! A man is a man, and always gives in to his evil desires when the opportunity arises. The root of the problem is in the rottenness of man, and not in the house he builds around himself. Cure the man of his sickness, and then he will have the strength to get to the work of building a home and feeding his family as God intended.
Franco, Dollfuss, and Salazar all establish Catholic Confessional States, "Coporatist States" based upon Catholic Social Teachings; entailing a co-operation between Labour and Businesses in harmony; not being pitted against one another as Socialists and Communists would have us do; or enslaved by godless Big Businesses as uncheck "Usurious Capitalism" would. A solidly Catholic "middle-ground;" both fair and viable.
