Community and Society. The Christian Criticism of our Social Order

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KPA version

[1] In the course if this week we will have ample occasion to discuss the realities of the present world situation, Spain, the position of the Churches on the Continent, including the relationship of the Roman Church to Fascism and Socialism.

Before we do so, I should to go to-day into the question of the relation of Christianity to Economics and Social problems all together.

I should like to introduce this by four statements: a/ […]

b/ That this crisis has religious significance brought about by the denial of Christianity. It is the forth of Christianity that is rassembling itself as a force destroying one would and bringing in an other.

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Polanyi 2018 version

[144] Because … […]

The Marxian […]

The concept of society of Marx is that of the relationship of human beings.

[…]

[145] […] [146] That to this commodity a human being is attached is treated as an accidental feature of no substance relevance. That by disposing of this commodity according to the law of the market a human being may be abused in such a way as to destroy the fabric of society, which is composed of him and his like, is a consideration beyond the scope of the system. The same holds of all human and social values on which the existence of society depends. […]

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Reference:
Original Publication: “Community and society. The Christian criticism of our social order”, 31 August 1937
KPA: 21/10 (5 typed p. and crossed out)
Recent Publication in English: in Polanyi 2018b, p. 144-153
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