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Catholic scholar: Marx worth studying
Georg Sans, a professor of contemporary philosophy at Gregorian University, the pontifical university in Rome, said Marxian thought may help guide people at a time of search for a "new harmony" between human needs and the natural world, The Times of London reported. He said Marx described the "social alienation" felt by those who have been excluded.
"We have to ask ourselves, with Marx, whether the forms of alienation of which he spoke have their origin in the capitalist system," Sans wrote in L'Osservatore Romano. "If money as such does not multiply on its own, how are we to explain the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few?"
Pope Benedict XVI gave a more traditional appraisal of Marx's legacy two years ago, saying Marxism "left a sad heritage of economic and ecological destruction, but also a painful destruction of the human spirit." But the pope has also been critical of capitalism.
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10-26-2009 10:54
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2. The *government* guarantees freedom of speech. ArcaMax is *not* the government: they are a privately-owned website with their own Terms of Service, and thus if your comment is seen to be genuinely offensive or threatening, they are within their rights to moderate it.
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10-24-2009 20:25
Alice wrote:
those who forget history
was originally said by George Santayana.
10-24-2009 12:40
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10-24-2009 00:45
jb wrote:
quote?
i know that the quote "He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it." has been attributed to Henry Ford. Does anyone know who said it first, or was it Ford [who was said to be an admirer of Hitler and the Nazi system] who borrowed it from the Nazis?
10-23-2009 16:43
Helios wrote:
Marx
You need to read Marx so that it's results remain in the public eye, otherwise someone else will "invent" this political system and it starts all over. You don't turn a blind eye to Idi Amin or any other disgraced Dictator. As MarineMom wrote, "He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it." And it is as true today as the day it was penned.
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