>What did you have in mind as a means of freeing the poor from oppressive
capitalism?
>I'll later return to the question of why are you limiting this to the
adverse effects of capitalism, not >addressing the other "isms" that also
grievously harm people. But I'm primarily interested in what you >think
could be done, and what means used.
We can address the other "isms", perhaps starting with materialism which
seems to be both a cause and an effect of unbridled capitalism.
The spirit that sent forth, not so long ago, in such rapid succession, so
many pioneers to such remote areas of the globe, must at all costs and above
everything else, be recaptured, for the twofold purpose of swelling the
number, and of ensuring the continual flow, of pioneers, so essential for
the safeguarding of the prizes won in the course of the several campaigns of
a world-girdling Crusade, and of combatting the evil forces which a
relentless and all-pervasive materialism, the cancerous growth of militant
racialism, political corruption, unbridled capitalism, wide-spread
lawlessness and gross immorality, are, alas, unleashing, with ominous
swiftness, amongst various classes of the society to which the members of
this community belong.
(Shoghi Effendi: Citadel of Faith, Page: 154)
No, Baha'u'llah did not bring a complete system of economics to the world.
Profit sharing is recommended as a solution to one form of economic
problems. There is nothing in the teachings against some kind of
capitalism; its present form, though, would require adjustments to be made."
(Shoghi Effendi: Directives of the Guardian, Page: 20)
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