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Wednesday 14 December 2011

Why would the language of “class warfare” gain any traction or credibility today? I cannot understand it except among those who are used to being on the winning side of most “wars”? If you are poor–or marginalized by almost any definition–you have always been the victim of class warfare. Class warfare is also called capitalism: Those who have the most capital win. Those who have less invariably lose. What Pope John Paul II called “rigid capitalism”, as clearly exemplified by the United States of America, has always been a de facto class warfare against the powerless and the poor. That is its very definition. John Paul, from a communist country said that such capitalism was just as evil, and the moral equivalent of socialist communism! If you doubt me, read his encyclical Laborem Exercens, or several others of his and other Popes–which make the same point. Conservative Catholics conveniently ignore almost all social encyclicals, while pretending to love and obey the Pope. I am not impressed when the Republicans accuse President Obama of inciting class warfare. Class warfare is structural and agreed upon in most Western countries, and it is the powerful against the powerlessness. The only change, the only thing new, is that the argument is now both ways! Power has always taken advantage of powerlessness, and powerlessness has the total Christian right to take back that power. Show me one time when Jesus did not take the side of the poor and powerless! Richard Rohr

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