Die Kommunalbesteuerung in Italien

An Introduction to the theory of statistics

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Identifikator:: 1013879643

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-23338

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Bucharin, Nikolaj Ivanovič http://d-nb.info/gnd/118516574

Title:: Oekonomik der Transformationsperiode

Place of publication:: Hamburg

Publisher:: Verlag der Kommunistischen Internationale

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 9. Kapitel. Die ökonomischen Kategorien des Kapitalismus in der Uebergangsperiode

Collection:: Economics Books

CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. II9 another heaven” that the ideal He announced was to be realized. “ My kingdom is not of this world,” Christ used to say. The element of truth in the assertion is that the Gospel, like the prophets of the Old Testament, is full of a spirit of brotherhood and equality. The “ glad tidings (cvayycA.iov) of the kingdom ” is announced to the poor. In the “ kingdom ” the first shall be last. “ Blessed be they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” What profound words, overflowing with that tender love for the afflicted which has been called charity ! Whatever the enemies of Christianity may say, it is beyond question from the gospel that the movement for the emancipa tion of the lower classes has come, which, after having little by little abolished slavery and serfage, proclaimed equality first by the American and then by the French Revolution. All that is done to elevate the lowly and to lighten the burden of the poor is conformable to the teachings of Christ; and thus Socialism, in its general tendency, and in so far as it only aspires, according to the St. Simonian formula, “ to ameliorate the moral, intellectual, and material condition of the greatest number,” proceeds evidently from Christian inspiration. No more can it be denied that those words in which Christ preached charity, brotherly love, and indifference to the world, when interpreted by absolute idealism and excessive asceticism, have resulted naturally in communism; a communism not merely such as was practised in Jerusalem by the immediate followers of Christ, but such as may still be seen under our very eyes in the thousands of convents that fill with increasing numbers both town and country. The Church has never condemned that social régime from which private property is banished, and even the idea of mine and thine proscribed as an outrage on brotherhood. On the contrary, even its most politic doctors, such as Bossuet, have seen therein the ideal of the Christian life. No doubt they were only thinking of a communism voluntarily practised. But if such be the ideal, is not the wish to make it adopted by all reasonable? At all events, it is certain that if those who attack the actual organization of our society wish to seek arms in the writings of the Christian Fathers,

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