[lbo-talk] Re: [NEWSROOM-L] catholics and socialism

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 08:19:06 PDT 2005


Carl Marzani, in one of the double, jumbo issues of Monthly Review,

'The Vatican as a Left Ally?' Vol. 34 #3, July/August, 1982.

Kovel in Socialist Register, 1987, http://www.joelkovel.org/files/JohnPaul.II.rtf quotes from Marzani book on Eurocommunism, quoting Togliatti of the PCI, "'We must understand that deep desire for a socialist society not only can exist in those of a religious faith, but may be stimulated by a tormented religious conscience confronting tlie stark problems of the modern world.' And: 'Concerning religious conscience, we can no longer accept the naive and erroneous belief that changes in social structures are sufficient to bring about social change. This idea, derived from the enlightenment of the eighteenth century, and the materialism of the nineteenth, has not passed the test of history. Reality is more complex: the roots of change are deeper; transformations take place in different ways. It is becoming clear that we must have a profound mutual understanding hence, collaboration.' These latter remarks were made twenty days before Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in Terns. They deserve as much praise as that magnificent document, but remain by and large buried.



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