An Un-Natural Ideology * 1 of 3

An Un-Natural Ideology * 1 of 3
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, April 4, 2010

“Socialism is a utopian ideology that attempts to eliminate human selfishness by destroying individual freedom, private property and free enterprise. Socialists believe that they can eliminate injustice by transferring responsibilities from individual and families to the State. However, their efforts are tantamount to killing the patient to cure his illness.

“By suppressing individual responsibility, Socialism creates the greatest possible injustice because it destroys true liberty, which is everyman freedom to decide for himself all matters that lie within his competence, to follow the course shown by his own reason, and to keep within the laws of morality and the dictates of justice and charity.

“Socialism is un-natural because it destroys initiative – a fruit of his intellect and free will – which tends to manifest itself in everything he does. When the State replaces individual initiative, Socialism’s totalitarian aspect enters with the inherent appearance of government and police repression that has been seen abundantly wherever it has been implemented.

“Persecution through the tax system, as is usual in so-called moderate Socialist regimes, such as social democracy, is as unjust as police persecution since both attack man’s intelligent and free nature.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL DOCTRINE IS OPPOSED TO SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM:

“In America the State has been absorbing society more and more usurping the attributions of the family and civic, cultural, religious and worker organizations and charitable institutions – the intermediate bodies between the individual and the State that constitute the living fabric of the nation.

“In this way the principle of solidarity and the principle of subsidiarity – two pillars of Christian social order end by being weakened by the principle of authority. Indeed, the principle of solidarity, derived from the common nature of men, leads them to be solidary among themselves and to help one another.

“It is in the family that this principle of solidarity attains the maximum of its force; for its part, the principle of solidarity, stemming from the fact that man is not only a social being but also a rational and free responsible being, guarantees every individual the right to resolve his own problems by himself or through his family or other intermediate associations without being obliged to higher authorities or await solutions from above…

“Thus the principle of authority is fundamental for social life but it may not ignore or destroy the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity, of which it is a complement. Without equilibrium among these three fundamental principles, society goes into disarray and easily slides into totalitarianism , understood as a regime that respects no individual rights and freedoms or takes them into account… (To be continued)

George H. Kubeck, * Exposing Socialism: The “Errors of Russia” - America Needs Fatima www.ANF.org - ANF@ANF.org P.O. Box 341, Hanover, PA 17331 – 888-317-5571