“After the Brexit vote, Britain’s politicians are scrambling around for ideas. They should begin with Pope Leo XIII’s masterpiece Rerum Novarum”.
Apart for the nonsense about Christian Democracy – i.e. in historical practice it was Social Modernism and Liberalism – of which Pope Leo XIII gave warning and which Pope Saint Pius X had to suppress [ “Moreover, Christian Democracy must have nothing to do with politics, and never be made to serve political ends or parties ; this is not its field….” ] this is a very worthwhile article.
Read more at The Catholic Herald………
I think you are missing Glasman’s wider agenda here. Glasman is the architect of the “Blue Labour” pressure group. This group, beneath a veneer of radicalism, supports imperialist war, attacks the welfare state and seeks to blame immigration for our social ills rather than neo-liberalism.
Glasman’s claim that Theresa May’s vacuous rhetoric about workers on boards of companies is “significant” and stirs a “renewed faith in miracles” is laughable.
Glasman fails to mention that Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell are advocating co-operatives and workplace democracy and have come under sustained assault from the political elites. McDonnell’s “new economics” conferences have been drawing huge crowds. His speech to the Co-operative Party “Ways Forward” conference should be read by all Catholics and can be accessed in full here:
http://labourlist.org/2016/01/its-the-new-economics-full-text-of-john-mcdonnells-co-op-speech/
If Glasman is genuinely interested in Catholic social teaching, why is there no mention of John McDonnell’s advocacy of Credit Unions – http://www.labournorthwest.org.uk/john_mcdonnell_praises_credit_unions
Glasman, a Labour Party member, deliberately conceals the genuine economic alternative offered by the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, a leadership which he has consistently sought to oppose and undermine.
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