Joseph Cardinal Höffner CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ... - Ordo Socialis
Joseph Cardinal Höffner CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ... - Ordo Socialis
Joseph Cardinal Höffner CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ... - Ordo Socialis
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e) Competition is what steers the order of the economy. .........................................................97<br />
2. Capitalistic Reality. ...................................................................................................................97<br />
3. Neoliberalism ............................................................................................................................98<br />
a) The market economy and free competition are not the same thing......................................99<br />
b) Production competition does not arise of itself; ..................................................................99<br />
c) The „Non-Productive” .........................................................................................................99<br />
d) A critical Evaluation of Neoliberalism ................................................................................99<br />
§ 2 The Economic Order According to the Ideas of <strong>Socialis</strong>m ............................ 101<br />
1. Communist-Collectivist <strong>Socialis</strong>m..........................................................................................102<br />
a) Historico-Sociological Materialism...................................................................................102<br />
b) The Communist Society of the Future. ...............................................................................103<br />
2. Liberal-Democratic Neo-<strong>Socialis</strong>m.........................................................................................105<br />
a) The recognition of Private Ownership...............................................................................106<br />
b) The Danger in a Welfare State...........................................................................................106<br />
3. The Relapse into Utopian Communism ..................................................................................106<br />
§ 3 Private Ownership as the Foundation of the Economic Order in<br />
Christian Social Teaching ............................................................................... 106<br />
a) The Community of Goods in Paradise ...............................................................................106<br />
b) The Community of Goods in Families and Monasteries....................................................107<br />
c) The Necessity of the System of Private Property for the Economic Order ........................107<br />
2. Reasons for the System of Private Property............................................................................108<br />
a) The five ‘positive’ reasons: ................................................................................................108<br />
b) The five ‘negative’ reasons: ...............................................................................................108<br />
§ 4 The Natural-Law Character of Private Ownership ......................................... 110<br />
l. The Issue at Question...............................................................................................................110<br />
2. The Correct Interpretation of the Traditional Teaching..........................................................110<br />
§ 5 The Twofold Aspect of Ownership (Its Individual and Social Function) ...... 112<br />
l. The Liberalist Thesis of the „Unrestrictedness” of Property as a Matter of Principle.............112<br />
2. Individual and Social Function ...............................................................................................113<br />
§ 6 The Crisis of the Economic Function of Private Ownership in<br />
Modern Society .............................................................................................. 113<br />
l. The Fourfold Crisis of the Function of Private Ownership......................................................113<br />
a) Lack of Property and the Lack of Self-Reliance.................................................................114<br />
b) Lack of Property and the Lack of Economic Security........................................................114<br />
c) The Separation of Property and the Power of Disposal ....................................................114<br />
d) Ownership of the Means of Production .............................................................................114<br />
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