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Christian socialism (view source)
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==Criticism==
==Criticism==
{{quotation|Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.<ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html Quadragesimo Anno], (May 15, 1931)</ref><br /><br />- [[Pope Pius XI]], Quadragesimo Anno, Section 120}}
{{quotation|Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.<ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html Quadragesimo Anno], (May 15, 1931)</ref><br /><br />- [[Pope Pius XI]], Quadragesimo Anno, Section 120}}
==Quotes==
{{quotation|''Secondly. Socialism would fail because government is corrupt to-day, and would be more so if it controlled all things.''
But what makes government corrupt to-day? Is it not the power of money amassed in a few private hands? Is it not this that corrupts our parties, controls elections, bribes legislators, purchases legislature, not of necessity by open bribery, but just as truly and more effectively by making it the interest of electors and legislators to serve the interests of capital. Says Wendell Phillips: "In combining, perpetual, legalized private wealth, lies our danger to-day."<br />
The rich men of this land are "our dangerous class." Newport and Saratoga, Lenox and Wall street, are the centres of our social and national corruption. Under Socialism, where all had a competence and none a superfluity, the cause of corrupt government would be largely removed. Public business, too, can always be better examined and controlled than private business. Even as it is to day, '''government is purity itself''' beside the corruption and trickery of the private Western Union Telegraph Company, and most other private corporations.<br />
But how about the appointing power, - would not that breed corruption where Government controlled so many offices? Under democratic Socialism, Government would not appoint. Overseers and department heads would not be appointed, but elected by the workers in the department. Good workmen would be known, and enterprise and diligence rewarded by higher office.<br /><br />
- William Dwight Porter Bliss, What is Christian Socialism?, p. 29-30.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/socialtaskchris00battgoog What is Christian Socialism?], (1911)</ref>}}
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==