Thursday, December 12, 2013

Is Capitalism "Intrinsically Disordered"? | National Catholic Reporter

Is Capitalism "Intrinsically Disordered"? | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Like with homosexualty and finding pleasure in sex - there is NO NATURAL ORDER.  There is simply the world as it is.  The curial abstractions may or may not be a useful tool - but they are not deified as something that God's justice must enforce.  What Fr. Sirico and Mr. Gregg don't realize is that Capitalism is not the same thing as a free market.  At does have winners - the capitalists and losers - workers and consumers.  Capitalist markets have few employers and many employees without power - which is why the Church, in her wisdom, encourages unions (aside from teachers unions and unions at Catholic hospitals - OOPS!)  A free market means buyers and sellers for both labor and products have equal power.  That is certainly not the case with capitalism.  Libertarian socialism, which makes the workers the owners and consumers, is the closest thing aside from total anarchy to achieving a free market in practice - because it maintains EQUALITY in its membership.  No one gets rich in an LS system - and THAT is the point!  It is also why no one gives much money toward adopting it.

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