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Bishop Fulton Sheen — Part 3
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Bishop Sheen Writes: their ‘marbles into a’ barrel
“LIBERATION began with
the idea of liberty, but
liberty understood as freedom
from something rather than
freedom for something. Com-
, munism began with the idea
‘ of equality, in which it was
.; hoped to’ m&ke everyone
> happy by establishing a class-
‘Jess society. Communism was
not so much concerned with
: political equality won by
‘which all men were ma
‘ equal before the law, but
‘ rather with economic equality
| which was not yet won.
, _The argument of the com-
“ munists was as follows: The
reason there are inequalities
in the economic order is be-
cause of private property. By
. its very nature, private prop-
erty is the basis of exploita-
apart from this general ob-
sbrvatierethere are two great
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Communism a
Buys Equality at.
Cost of Freedom
de for man is absorbed into the
et
fashion that a drop of water
is absorbed into a glass of |
2.
defects In the conmmunistic
scheme of equality. ao
(COMMUNISM “purchases
uality at cost of free
dom. uality is indeed de-
sirable, but not when it is
purchased at the cost of free-
dom, and man being what he ®
is, there is no other way to
achieve ‘it. There is no
dom to assert personality,
state very much in
wine; there is no freedom to
own property, for the state |.
ig the sole employer and re-
serves for itself the right of
exploitation; there is no free-
dom of religion, for that is
equivalent to admitting that [
God is above the party; there
is no freedom to dissent po- &
divide for himself the choice ;
spoils. It is one thing-Casask :
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and it is quite another thing
to be sure that the ten boys
who were picked out to di-
vide the marbles wiil equally.
distribute them among the .
990. Where find the economic g&
eunuchs who will be so free
from passion both of wealth.
and power that all will re
A
ceive equally? Communism .
is not the answer... .°
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