The Catholic Marx
Thursday, November 13, 2008
By Megan Sweas
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We all know that Marx wrote a very famous book about economics and criticized capitalism's excesses, but did you know that he is living now and is the archbishop of Munich? I'm speaking not of Karl Marx, of course, but of Reinhard Marx.
The modern-day Marx has written a book, Das Kapital: A Plea for Man, borrowing from the title of his namesakes' famous book, Duetsche Welle reports. While Marx criticizes the market economy for hurting the poor and rewarding immoral behavior, he's no fan of Karl Marx. Instead he asks for a reform of the market economy so that we don't fall back into the dangers of Marxism.
"Capitalism without humanity, solidarity, and justice has no morals and no future," Reinhard Marx writes.
If we're referring to Reinhard Marx, I think I may be a Marxist indeed!
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Bishop Reinhard Marx's "Das Kapital"/ Pope Benedict
By Steven Deedon (not verified) on Sunday, July 12, 2009Thank God for Bishop Marx's and Pope Benedict's
forceful criticism of the market economies that never
served us well and have finally brought on disaster on a
global scale.
It is heartening that the U.S. and Canadian Bishops have
also been critical of the economic systems of their countries.
One would have wished that the current pope had also had the
open-mindedness over the years to support the Liberation
Theologians of Latin America and the Bishops of their region
who have supported these theologians. Had he read more
widely in Historical Jesus studies Benedict (Ratzinger) would
have seen that Theologies of Liberation indeed reflect the
ministry and teaching of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth,
responding to Galilean peasants made homeless or otherwise
destitute by the predatory classes of empire and the large-scale
appropriation (commercialization) of peasant land.
too late
By pablo (not verified) on Thursday, November 27, 2008sorry, but on Nov 4th, we voted for Marxism..And Catholics are to blame!!
not that anyone reads any of these lame blogs.
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