socialism

72:7.1The fed­eral gov­ern­ment is pa­ter­nal­is­tic only in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of old-age pen­sions and in the fos­ter­ing of ge­nius and cre­ative orig­i­nal­ity; the state gov­ern­ments are slightly more con­cerned with the in­di­vid­ual cit­i­zen, while the lo­cal gov­ern­ments are much more pa­ter­nal­is­tic or so­cial­is­tic. The city (or some sub­di­vi­sion thereof) con­cerns it­self with such mat­ters as health, san­i­ta­tion, build­ing reg­u­la­tions, beau­ti­fi­ca­tion, wa­ter sup­ply, light­ing, heat­ing, recre­ation, mu­sic, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

72:7.3Cities have no tax­ing power, nei­ther can they go in debt. They re­ceive per capita al­lowances from the state trea­sury and must sup­ple­ment such rev­enue from the earn­ings of their so­cial­is­tic en­ter­prises and by li­cens­ing var­i­ous com­mer­cial ac­tiv­i­ties.

99:5.1While re­li­gion is ex­clu­sively a per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence—know­ing God as a Fa­ther—the corol­lary of this ex­pe­ri­ence—know­ing man as a brother—en­tails the ad­just­ment of the self to other selves, and that in­volves the so­cial or group as­pect of re­li­gious life. Re­li­gion is first an in­ner or per­sonal ad­just­ment, and then it be­comes a mat­ter of so­cial ser­vice or group ad­just­ment. The fact of man’s gre­gar­i­ous­ness per­force de­ter­mines that re­li­gious groups will come into ex­is­tence. What hap­pens to these re­li­gious groups de­pends very much on in­tel­li­gent lead­er­ship. In prim­i­tive so­ci­ety the re­li­gious group is not al­ways very dif­fer­ent from eco­nomic or po­lit­i­cal groups. Re­li­gion has al­ways been a con­ser­va­tor of morals and a sta­bi­lizer of so­ci­ety. And this is still true, not­with­stand­ing the con­trary teach­ing of many mod­ern so­cial­ists and hu­man­ists.