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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gawker: Here Are 11 Top "Screw Capitalism" Lines in Pope Francis' New Message [View all]
Here are 10 more of the pontiff's most radical, Van Jones-loving lefty Marxist utterances about the "tyranny" of runaway corporate capitalism. There's something in here for everyone, even atheists. Except maybe the ones with "Who Is John Galt?" tee shirts. But seriously, who likes those guys? Fuck them.
1. "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion."
2. "Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape."
3. "Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new."
4. "Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system."
http://gawker.com/here-are-11-top-screw-capitalism-lines-in-pope-franci-1471888334
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Gawker: Here Are 11 Top "Screw Capitalism" Lines in Pope Francis' New Message [View all]
onehandle
Nov 2013
OP
"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure"
rug
Nov 2013
#11
"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure"
AlbertCat
Nov 2013
#13
I wonder if the pope will start divesting the church's great wealth and giving it to the poor.
AuntFester
Nov 2013
#34