The Antidote to Class Warfare

The Antidote to Class Warfare
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, October 03, 2011

Let’s have a breadth of fresh air and common sense with Pope Benedict XVI’s article written in 1983. [It is in that classic book by Cardinal Ratzinger, Co-Workers of the Truth, Sept. 27th entry.]

“Ninety years have elapsed since Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical “Rerum Novarum”, which has become the “Magna Carta of Christian Social Work”, as Pius XI called it.

“This encyclical provides a Christian answer to the social question of the Marxist interpretation of mankind and of society. The struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors is for Marxism the whole content of history and the way to liberation, to the paradise of a classless world.

“As a Christian, the Pope bases his argument on a radically different concept: “Precisely the opposite is true”, he replied to the idea of saving the world by means of a class struggle. “On the contrary, the Creator ordered all things toward peace and mutual harmony … Capital is oriented to work to capital.”

“To the atheistic concept of a struggle, the Pope proposes solidarity as the Christian standard. Solidarity – that includes justice as its central demand. We are solidarity as its central demand. We are solidaristic only when we give to others what is rightfully theirs by reason of their creatureliness, their humanity.

“For us, therefore, the foundation of all economic and social relationships is not confrontation but charity and cooperation. Confrontation is destruction. Violence solves no problems. Pope Leo says in this regard: “Constant struggle breeds barbarism and confusion. Today we can see the truth of this statement demonstrated all over the world.”

“Constant conflict barbarizes humanity, barbarizes the world. It destroys men interiorly, and this interior destruction leads, with incontestable logic, to exterior destruction. It follows, then, that the great social achievements, the gradual construction of a system of social justice, do not owe their existence to the program of Karl Marx, whose disciples wanted, not reform, but a progressive deterioration that would pave the way for their paradise. What are we to conclude from all this?

“To the concept of a class struggle and its inhumane utopias we are to oppose the fundamental principle of solidarity and justice. The decision as to what is right or not right is not to be made lightly. Respect for what is right is the basis of every human community. Without it, there is, in the long run, no respect for humanity itself and no preservation of human dignity.”

George H. Kubeck

P.S. Class warfare is a European sick idea. The Wall Street Protest that is going on today in America is a tragedy of public education and honest journalism. Karl Marx is alive and well in our public universities. They have brainwashed our students who spew out their leftist hog wash. SHAME ON THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY!