marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]

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  • Can you expound a bit on the Rerum Novarum? I’m not in a place where I can really read anything rn. I did look briefly at the Wikipedia page, it seems like it’s mostly some typical lib “we don’t like socialism but we’re also against ‘crony capitalism’” stuff. Is that generally correct?

    I’ve read Rerum Novarum and it is basically trying to hew a middle ground between socialist control of the economy because, won’t anyone think of the landlords and the business owners. That said, Leo XIII is considered the social pope that launched the concepts of Catholic Social Teaching, and very likely that without novarum we wouldn’t have had liberation theology. And they would not have their own internal justifications coming from Church doctrine (not that it matters, but still!).