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Eugene Csocsan de Váralja: The Just Income Distribution

THE JUST INCOME DISTRIBUTION

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above stemming from the transcendental relationship between man and what he needs.68

According to Saint Thomas Aquinas the right of private property does not originate from the natural law, but from the ius gentium because the animals have no private property, and the law of private property can be only deduced from the nature of things by reason.69

In fact we ought to remember, that there was no private property in the first churches of the apostles and in the Jesuits' reductions in Paraguay between 1640 and 1768,70 as there is no private property within the religious orders to this day.

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III. The social teaching of the Supreme Pontiffs accepting the principle of private property recognises, that “the distribution of the goods on earth, which has been heavily disturbed by the contrast of a few extremely rich and enormous masses of the propertyless have to be brought into harmony with the common good and social justice,71 (Quadragesimo anno), “...the more just distribution of the goods on earth” is a “legitimate demand”72 (Divini Redemptoris).

In fact “the private property became a direct power to exploit the labour of others”73 (Christmas message of 1941).

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Aquin, Graz 1929, page 109

IIá IIae qu 57. a.3; qu 66 a 2 ad 1.

JABLONKAY Gábor S.J.: Redukciók in: Katolikus Lexikon, IV. kötet, 1933, page 74.

Sua igitur cuique bonorum attribuenda est; efficiendumque, ut as boni communis seu socialis iustitiae normas revocetur et conformetur partitio bonorum creaturum, quam hodie ob ingens discimen inter paucos praedivites et innumeros rerum inopes gravissimo laborare incommodo cordatus quisque novit. Quadragesimo anno, AAS 1931 (a. XXIII), page 197; Dans la tradition, 7^ July 1952, AAS 1952 (a. XXXXIV), page 619.

Ii enim, qui eiusmodi causam provehunt, fucata hac veritatis specie utuntur, se nimirum velle solummodo operariae plebis sortem ad meliorem fortunam reducere; itemque velle et quidquid non rectum in rem administrandam Libertas, quos vocant, invexerint, opportune sanare, et ad aequabiliorem bonorum partitionem devenire: quae omnia procul dubio legitimis rationibus attingi posse nemo est, qui non videat. Divini Redemptoris, AAS 1937, (a. XXIX), page 72-73.

la propriété privata divenne per gli uni potere diretto verso lo sfri^ttamento dell’opera altrui, negli altro generö gelosia e odio

....Nell’alba, 24tn December 1941, AAS 1942 (a. XXXIV) page 14