Marxism

Both Senator John McCain, his running mate Governor Sarah Palin and some of their supporters are running around the country calling Obama’s belief in liberal, New Deal-derived economics as “Marxism.”

An absurd assertion indeed! Marxism, particularly the Soviet model, is a form of anti-liberalism.<./i> But perhaps what would be more surprising to GOP’s would be Dynamic Duo is that the more accurate description would be “Good Catholic doctrine.”

New Deal-inspired liberal economics is not about Marxism or destroying capitalism. Instead, it is about saving capitalism from those bad apples that would abuse it, seeing it only as a means to create non-meritorious wealth by dint of deceit and unscrupulousness.

Part and parcel of New Deal economics is Distributive Justice. Its roots are found in the works of Aristotle, Cicero, Maimonides and adopted into Catholicism by Thomas Aquinas. And it is Aquinas who defines distributive justice as follows:

How much are we (as a Christian political group) influenced by principals of Liberation Theology? Would more study of Liberation theologists be time well spent for us? Is this a school of thought and action we want to be identified with? If so, how can we avoid the Marxist label (if indeed we want to avoid it)? Is this a path we want to follow?

(next post coming with more basic info about this school of theology, it may take me a bit to write so if your first response is "I'm clueless" (almost always MY first response to about anything) then relax because I am currently writing a simple primer post about this)