Socialism Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/socialism/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:12:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Socialism Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/socialism/ 32 32 The Meaning of Charity Has Changed, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/the-meaning-of-charity-has-changed-part-2/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:12:17 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4599 The Good Samaritan Part 1 explained how the meaning of Charity has changed, and ended with these questions: Why did the hierarchy embrace the non-biblical view that the poor have a right to charity? Did they not realize that it paved the way to the Socialism denounced by a number of Popes? And [...]

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]]> On Trees, Butterflies, and Powerful People https://mind-at-work.com/on-trees-butterflies-and-powerful-people/ Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:39:20 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4538 “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear, does it make a sound?” This old question challenged the minds of people who gathered in living rooms before Netflix and Amazon Prime existed. It is still fun to ponder. Sound is a vibration that moves the surrounding air. Hearing is [...]

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]]> A Perfect Theological Storm https://mind-at-work.com/a-perfect-theological-storm/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:06:55 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4408 A Perfect Storm is defined as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of [movements].” A Perfect Theological Storm differs only in the time required for the concurrence: decades rather than hours. Such a storm has been gathering in the Catholic Church for well over a century. This essay will identify its movements, [...]

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]]> The Growing Threat of Socialism https://mind-at-work.com/the-growing-threat-of-socialism/ Sat, 02 May 2020 15:37:13 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3876      Friedrich von Hayek Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Hungarian Economist, Philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner best known for exposing the tragic flaws of Socialism, notably in The Road to Serfdom (1944). Five years later he published “The Intellectuals and Socialism” in The University  of Chicago Law Review. That essay offered an [...]

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]]> Why Venezuela’s Lesson Is Being Ignored https://mind-at-work.com/why-venezuelas-lesson-is-being-ignored/ Sat, 11 May 2019 14:19:41 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3303                                   Our Lady of Caracas, 1766 The news is filled with the tragic story of Venezuela’s decline from being the most oil-rich country in the world, surpassing Saudi-Arabia’s legendary wealth, to a country with an inflation rate [...]

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