Last year, Ahmari co-founded the online magazine Compact along with Matthew Schmitz, a fellow conservative Catholic, and Edwin Aponte, a self-described Marxist, with the idea of bringing together critics of economic and cultural liberalism from the left and right.
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The old woodcutter spoke again. “It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. Life is so vast, yet you judge all of life with one page or one word. You see only a fragment. Unless you know the whole story, how can you judge?"
Excellent article. I generally resonate with Catholic social teaching, finding it aligned with both Bible doctrines and Anabaptist Christian living as to how we should relate to wealth and the poor.
Sohrab has been all over the map politically, ideologically and religiously. He's difficult to pin down because he seems to be constantly shifting in his thinking. He was at one time an atheist marxist, a muslim, a neoconservative working at a Jewish magazine, and he's now a Catholic on the "New Right" (which has some striking similarities to Socialism). I like him well enough but there's much I find to disagree with. Much as people left-of-center think there's a Christian Nationalist hiding behind every Bible; if there's an actual Christian Nationalist in the room - it's Sohrab Amari.
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Affiliation: Lancaster Mennonite Conference & Honduran Mennonite Evangelical Church
As a German I'd say that we have "been there, done that". The Social Democracy promoted measures against economical liberalism before 1933 and the National Socialists adopted the economical program of the moderate (non-Marxist) Social Democrats.
Some of those measures were really useful, like regulating the banks (preventing risky investitions). On the other hand the regulation of consumers and little producers (like farmers) was deeply unpopular, and Ludwig Erhard got his personal fame (and a popular preference for economical liberalism) mostly by abolishing those regulations.
