Tapsearch Com EditorLiberalism - Where is the beef?
September 8th 2008 22:35
This continues our discussion of Liberalism by Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks - based notes from Father McQuade's SJ JCU class
When liberalism is based on the greatest good for the greatest number where that number can be as little as two, the fragmentation takes many turns. Marxian Communism broke away from the history books and brought about a highly organized and intelligent minority leadership through the violence of an international revolution and by this means to reduce all persons to a common denominator except for those who govern. They held that goverment would eventually fade away towards a perfect society of all being freed from government controls. We all know that this never happened and infact those in the elite government borrowed alot from the totalitarians ideas of government to maintain their power.
We found that liberalism attached to economics linked to the impoverished underclass of raw capitalism does not work, liberalism attached to totalitarianism of state socialism does not work and liberalism attached to a robot uniformity of Marxist collectivism failed too.
In the USA, we still ignore all these mistakes as we set liberalism into our so called democracy. We ignore the fact where the rights of individuals are part of a Divine nature and there is a distinct order of things no matter how difficult it is to see. Social justice depends of an efficient organization under the laws of God separate from the State which really has no human personality that people give it. The State is actually a phantom that has no subtantial existence of its own. The State is only a shadow of reality especially when it denounces the Divine. The Divine is difficult to define in a liberal democracy because people turn over a power to a phantom State with just shadows of objective truth and true social justice.
A child quickly finds out that they exist and that they did not create themselves and must look for something outside themselves for an order to things. Liberalism ignores this and splits into more and more fragmentation until only the particles of objective truth are left.
When liberalism is based on the greatest good for the greatest number where that number can be as little as two, the fragmentation takes many turns. Marxian Communism broke away from the history books and brought about a highly organized and intelligent minority leadership through the violence of an international revolution and by this means to reduce all persons to a common denominator except for those who govern. They held that goverment would eventually fade away towards a perfect society of all being freed from government controls. We all know that this never happened and infact those in the elite government borrowed alot from the totalitarians ideas of government to maintain their power.
We found that liberalism attached to economics linked to the impoverished underclass of raw capitalism does not work, liberalism attached to totalitarianism of state socialism does not work and liberalism attached to a robot uniformity of Marxist collectivism failed too.
In the USA, we still ignore all these mistakes as we set liberalism into our so called democracy. We ignore the fact where the rights of individuals are part of a Divine nature and there is a distinct order of things no matter how difficult it is to see. Social justice depends of an efficient organization under the laws of God separate from the State which really has no human personality that people give it. The State is actually a phantom that has no subtantial existence of its own. The State is only a shadow of reality especially when it denounces the Divine. The Divine is difficult to define in a liberal democracy because people turn over a power to a phantom State with just shadows of objective truth and true social justice.
A child quickly finds out that they exist and that they did not create themselves and must look for something outside themselves for an order to things. Liberalism ignores this and splits into more and more fragmentation until only the particles of objective truth are left.
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