Excerpt from Catholicism and Socialism
Socialism is rapidly becoming the accepted creed of the masses. A century of commercialist economics and materialist propaganda is producing the inevitable result. A people dechristianized, neglected, and oppressed by governing classes that will not govern, by selfish and irresponsible "captains of industry," has naturally turned to the only doctrine that seems to promise hope, Revolutionary Socialism. Yet the Catholic Church, the divinely-appointed guardian of Truth and Justice, while sternly rebuking the neglect of duty that has created this social unrest, must also oppose Revolutionary Socialism; for the reaction has over-passed justice, and the proposed remedy is almost worse than the disease.
In the pamphlets collected in this volume some of the points of opposition between Christianity and Socialism are indicated. The arguments put forward by no means exhaust the case against Socialism, but they will be found of service in opposing that specious doctrine, which is seducing many of the noblest among the working-classes of England.
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