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Forum Post: Pope Francis Cites Capitalism As Being At The Root Of Social Injustice In The World

Posted 10 years ago on Nov. 26, 2013, 9:34 p.m. EST by leftongreen (0) from Mohawk, NY
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These comments are not from the Occupy Wall Street website. They are from Pope Francis I's new encyclical, "Evangeli Gaudium": "Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape...In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system...While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules..In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule."

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[-] 0 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024098549

As Popes go, I'm actually starting to like this one.

He's pissed off both FLAKESnews and Limbaugh!!!!

[-] 0 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Economic tyranny is a bad thing.

Tossing the Bishop of bling out his $40,000 bathtub, now this??

http://www.occupy.com/article/pope-francis-issues-manifesto-denouncing-global-economic-tyranny

Asking the rich and powerful to have a heart??

What kind of libe(R)topian is he anyway?