ANSWER: Name this socialist

[Michael Yates]

I think that it is true that the Church's teachings are corporatist. 
This means that they will at times have a populist element, though when
push comes to shove, the Church hierarchy will go for the "bundle of
sticks" (i.e. fascism or some other totalitarian variant).  BTW, I did
my college senior paper on th eeconomics of the papal encyclicals!

michael yates

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> >This is a subset of the broader issue of left-religious links, but the
> >Catholic Church is a particularly interesing institution for that analysis.
> 
> Almost everything I know about Catholic social teaching I learned
> from a lecture I heard earlier this year by a Marxist Jesuit. He said
> that the Church philosophy was fundamentally corporatist - not
> socialist and not anticapitalist - and based on notions of fair
> shares (a fair wage, a fair profit, etc.). While it's certainly nice
> to hear the Pope denouncing neoliberalism, promoting debt relief, and
> talking about common access to property, he'll only go so far.
> 
> Anything involving the Church is going to be full of contradictions -
> there's liberation theology, but there's Opus Dei and the Knights of
> Malta too, not to mention a fundamentally patriarchal philosophy.
> 
> Doug