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The economical thought at Caritas in veritate
with Markus Krienke
POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION
Today the politics is in front
of serious challenges,
these ones are born
by the that fact it’s not possible
to base oneself on the existence
of strong national states,
on the global level.
By now the markets,
the migrator fluxes,
all the tendencies
in a global liberalism,
which commonly
is called globalization,
have diffused themselves
in all the world,
don’t make unnecessary the national States,
but subtract to these national States,
definitely, some forces,
some opportunities for
the national management of the politic.
This hives serious challenges
to the social doctrine of the Church,
that for more than 100 years,
has always directed itself
exactly to the national States,
as actors at the global level.
This challenge reflects
the actual encyclical,
Benedict XVI's
Caritas in Veritate.
In this encyclical the actual Pope
focuses on the challenge
of the globalization
and asks how we can answer
by the social doctrine of the Church
to these challenges,
when the old board
of reference is absent.
In this old board
of reference the classical principles
of Church’s social doctrine
of personality, solidarity
and common good are elaborated.
Exactly these principles,
that commonly are synthesized
in the perspective of the social justice,
always presuppose that
we have a state,
which in its interior can give
some laws to the development
especially of the economy,
but also of the redistribution,
but also to the all social process
which happen in his interior.
But in the moment when,
these processes have assumed
a global dynamic,
that by its logics,
crosses the
traditional national state,
and its possibilities of action,
then asks itself the question
to the social doctrine
of the Church what involves,
which consequences this development involves
for the declination of its classical principles.
It’s very interesting to see
see how Benedict XVI
transfers exactly
the principles of personality,
solidarity and subsidiarity
at global level,
recommends some global coordination,
critics that the mechanisms
today living are too limited,
the United Nations,
which should have more opportunities
of competences
and power of action,
but facing, at this point,
at the same moment,
ethically, the danger
of a bigger power specific
of an international institution
for the management,
maybe of a global solidarity
and recommends the principle
of subsidiarity.
In the other words
must not rise an international State
with totalitarian tendencies,
but must be mechanisms
which base themselves
on the full functioning
of the national States,
but avoiding at the same time,
that these ones lock themselves
giving to some organizations,
which then are not especially
specified in the details,
some competences of action.
It needs to underline that
the social doctrine of the Church
always underlines that
it's not to project
a real system in all its technical details,
but to give the principles
of system and to suggest
that it needs a new reflexion
about a specific global
political system.