/lit/ - Literature

>government should protect property rights
>government should enforce contracts
>government should put down revolutions
>people should be incentivized to produce and consume beyond their needs
B-but it's not a system though!

>>11978266
Chesterton, Hopkins, Newman, Waugh. Is there a more literary group?

>>10760818
Yes, OP fuck off.

But really, I agree with you. Capitalism and materialism more generally have devastated western culture and traditional values. When will the world wake up and take the bread pill?

>>10732805
WOT DID YOO SAY M8?

>>10660321
This fat fuck's views

>>10595867
You called?

>Marxist
Wew

"Under Communism we should have all the worst spiritual effects of industrial Capitalism extended and emphasized because their tyranny would be universal. It would be the killing of the soul of man and its dignity."

Communism, revolution, must you think in such terms? Your obsession with wealth distribution belies your claimed concern with the means of production, my Marxist friend. Or have you forgotten that property ownership is a right inseparable from the dignity of Man as made in the image of the Lord? Do not think, my friend, that in my acknowledgment of the importance of property rights I am myself a capitalist. Nothing could be further form the truth! All ideologies predicated on production are soulless and incompatible with true humanity, and none more so than the so-called liberal capitalism which exchanges the tyranny of the State for that of the Market, a new idol no less monstrous than the Golden Calf.

>>10224718
If only we could create a non-materialist economic system founded on the inherent dignity and worth of human beings, one that treats them as individuals and not as commodities!