Reflexions

Regarding the imposition of a truth

There will always be some enlightened ones ready to appropriate the truth and try to impose such truth to the rest

Leonardo Panura

 

Regarding a conviction for ample majorities

The agro exporter model with commercial opening and deregulation of capitals can be the dreamed business for top minorities, but a conviction for ample majorities

David Cufré
Regarding an economic freedom that benefit everybody

In order to continue providing employment, it is imperative to promote an economy which favors productive diversity and business creativity. For example, there is a great variety of small-scale food production systems which feed the greater part of the world’s peoples, using a modest amount of land and producing less waste, be it in small agricultural parcels, in orchards and gardens, hunting and wild harvesting or local fishing. Economies of scale, especially in the agricultural sector, end up forcing smallholders to sell their land or to abandon their traditional crops. Their attempts to move to other, more diversified, means of production prove fruitless because of the difficulty of linkage with regional and global markets, or because the infrastructure for sales and transport is geared to larger businesses. Civil authorities have the right and duty to adopt clear and firm measures in support of small producers and differentiated production. To ensure economic freedom from which all can effectively benefit, restraints occasionally have to be imposed on those possessing greater resources and financial power. To claim economic freedom while real conditions bar many people from actual access to it, and while possibilities for employment continue to shrink, is to practice a doublespeak which brings politics into disrepute.

Pope Francis Encyclical Laudato Si (129)