SocialismCatholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1910 - 93 pages |
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absolutely abstract law action amongst Anarchist Aristotle Atheist big babies bread capital Catholic character child Christian Democracy Church of Christ civilisation Communism crisis cultured death demagogues Divine Divorce dreams duty earth economic English Socialists exchange value exterior powers fact false father flunkey force foul freedom German Socialist give hand happiness heart Heaven hell Hence hold honour human nature idea ideal imaginary inevitable irreligion Karl Marx kind labour labour spent leaders Listen live logically Mammon man's marriage marriage bond material matter means merely mind monster machine moral power moral right moral world nation nigger officials Pagan paradise pity poor Pope Leo Pope Leo XIII practical principles private ownership progress proletariat queen Ramsay MacDonald realised recognise religion robbed sense Social Democracy Socialism society soul source of value strange surplus value teaching thing true truth unearned increment wage wealth woman workman worth
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Page 53 - ... its aim to be the organization of the working class and those in sympathy with it, into a political party, with the object of conquering the powers of government and using them for the purpose of transforming the present system of private ownership of the means of production and distribution into collective ownership by the entire people.
Page 33 - Just as the symmetry of the human body is the result of the disposition of the members of the body, so in a State it is ordained by nature that these two classes should exist in harmony and agreement and should, as it were, fit into one another, so as to maintain the equilibrium of the body politic. Each requires the other; capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.
Page 68 - ... On the other hand, if the dogma is false, it involves a blasphemous assumption, and makes the nearest approach to the fulfillment of St. Paul's prophecy of the man of sin, who ' as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself off that he is God' (2 Thess. ii. 4). Let us first see what the dogma does not mean, and what it does mean. It does not mean that the Pope is infallible in his private opinions on theology and religion. As a man, he may be a heretic (as Liberius, Honorius, and John...
Page 89 - But We affirm without hesitation that all the striving of men will be vain if they leave out the Church.
Page 45 - New Moral World the irrational names of husband and wife, parent and child, will be heard no more...
Page 38 - society" of a man's own household; a society limited indeed in numbers, but a true "society," anterior to every kind of State or nation, with rights and duties of its own, totally independent of the commonwealth.
Page 13 - ... and it must safeguard the various distinctions and degrees which are indispensable in every wellordered commonwealth. Finally it must endeavor to preserve in every human society the form and the character which God ever impresses on it. It is clear, therefore, that there is nothing in common between Social and Christian Democracy.
Page 90 - Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community ; social and public life can only go on by the help of various kinds of capacity and the playing of many parts ; and each man, as a rule, chooses the part which peculiarly suits his case.
Page 45 - Every child that comes into the world is a welcome addition to society ; for society beholds in every child the continuation of itself and its own further development ; it, therefore, perceives from the very outset the duty, according to its power, to provide for the new-born child. When the child waxes stronger his equals await him for common amusement, under public direction.
Page 13 - ... there is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, that the remuneration must be enough to support the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal comfort. If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice.