The Rerum Novarum Pope Leo Analysis

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1) In the Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo says several things about socialism. Socialists believe that everyone should have equal rights and tried to make the poor more equal to the rich. “To remedy these evils the Socialists, working on the poor man’s envy of the rich, endeavor to destroy private property, and maintain that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the state or municipal beings.” (pg.180) They thought that if they took away property form a person and gave it to the public, the poor will no longer envy the rich because they will have their equal share to whatever there is to enjoy that there was previously causing them to envious about the rich who had it. The socialists main goal was to