Thursday, 30 October 2008

A Word On Social Justice

The absolute primacy of free market forces and the individualism of capitalism should be rejected as should totalitarian and atheistic communism. Central planning perverts the basis of social bonds, the law of the marketplace fails social justice. Profit as the excusive norm and ultimate end of economic activity is morally unacceptable. A disordered desire for money is a cause of conflict in the social order. The reduction of the basic rights of individuals and groups to nothing more than a means of profit is slavery. We are capable of free will, thinking for ourselves and making decisions. We shouldn't think that all business people and economists are tricky, sly political figures. Think of all the rejected prophets of bygone epoches.

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