Week Eleven

The Catholic Social Thinking of Labor and property argued that sharing is for the better good for all because God gave peopole property for all to use not just for self. The social aspect of property justifies the reasons of why communist beleived that it was acceptable to have people sharing and that all are equal. The "private" aspect of property was to create initiative to make people want to work for what they have and through distrubution of sharing, full participation is needed in order to make this work.

The terms used in the reading were interesting and I have not heard them used in this context before, like expropriation, meaning to take away excess amount of ownership to be given to the "poor" and those who do not have it. I could not imagine living in a society that would take my belongings that I work hard for away from me because someone does not have it. That would honestly make me not want to work or earn money because someone is going to give it to me because I do not have it, why work?