Among us there was a man as a grain full of life and health;
he could read people, read them like books;
so he immersed into the secret record
of our mankind, where he imprinted his deepest dreams
burning burning stigma into him.
A man, a simple man and good as bread,
a genius not for luxury, but for necessity,
a genius of the masses
what is your secret?
where is your greatness?
YOU ONLY NEED TO BEGIN
On October 13, 1917, Ljubljana was embroidered with mourning colors.
Crowds gathered on the streets and for the last time greeted a man,a friend, a leader,
whose goodness within the short years of his life, marked the hearts of masses.
Just as the pains and dreams of these people marked his heart and lit a fire in it
made him burn and even burn-out, to create a fairer world with them and for them.
They said fairwell to Janez the Evangelist Krek.
He was born on 27 November 1865 at St. Gregor (above Ribnica).
His father Valentin was a teacher, and his family moved several times.
Janez thus started his school days in Komenda.
Janez, well, he was very lively and a very intelligent boy.
His father Valentin also noticed that and enrolled him in elementary school at the tender age of five,
that is, he was a pupil of his fathers and enrolled in the first and second grade in "bukve",
gold, in golden "bukve", good pupils.
When Janez was 9 years old, his father suddenly died.
His family moved to Selce, where his mother inherited the house "v Štoku" after her husband.
In it, she opened a small store with which she provided for herself and her 6 children.
Janez quickly adapted to the environment and people accepted him - the parish priest as well.
Krek had, a, as we already mentioned, right, special talents,
namely, these talents are told about by the parish priest in Selce, as well as all of his later professors,
that he had something, something special.
The most interesting statement of the perish priest mr. Mayer, when he told his kaplan, he said:
well, this guy has some really special talents – he will do something very good or something very bad with them
he has talent for both.
Well, he then decided after high school to go to the monastery,
to which people of Selce thought and gossiped at that time: that he was surely persuaded by his mother, wasn't he?
This can also be partially true, because he saw in his mother what is, the basic thing,
which is also, what his mom did, love for thea neighbor, that was her, her basic note,
the second, that she was very fond of reading
and third, that she very much liked to be giving, towards everybody.
Maybe just because Janez was a very lively boy from a young age
yet full of double meanings, humorous and this may even have caused grief to some,
and even in the laminate, where he was told that he was not serious, that he is not a serious candidate for a priest,
he cannot be such a joker and full of all other shannaningans, and be a candidate for a priest, no.
But he always did it, he always had a feeling for uniting things, knowing where the limit is,
how far he can take laughter and, and the entertainment.
He had never in his life; at least that's what his classmates say,
he did not insult anyone, he always treated with dignity every human being,
whether it was his supporter or his opponent, right?
Kreks moms didn't lack work by no means.
Poverty was knocking on many doors and
Štok soon became a gathering place for impoverished people from the entire Selška valley.
Yet the problem had deeper roots ...
Slovenes were then part of the Austrian state, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
and then in 1848 the farmers received the so-called Land Depot,
which meant that they got land for which they then had to pay some compensation and, of course, taxes
In addition, farmers were not accustomed to farming, so this brought big problems,
which in the aftermath led farmers to get in dept. ...
This was then exploited by some, so farmers borrowed money, got in dept and then got put on a "drum"
It is known that the farms were then made public, which means that on Sunday after mass,
it was announced that this and this farm would be sold, and of course, people had to move out
At that time, it was known that a huge number of farms was sold,
they collapsed due to the fact that the conditions were in fact unfair, even fraudulent.
And, those interest, which could be up to 200 percent, no agro-culture can handle that,
so that the farmer could also survive, right? That is why, at that time,
over 100,000 Slovenes emigrated to America, for example
After four years of studying theology, Krek was consecrated to a priest.
What joy he felt can be understood from the words with which he invited people to the mass:
I could sing with angels, what I wanted, I received!
I invite you to my wedding day - the most beautiful day of my life.
Krek wanted to perform his priesthood service as a parish priest in a small hill parish, at St. Lenart above Luša.
So he could write in peace and care for the welbeing of souls.
Bishop Jakob Missia, later the first Slovenian cardinal, had different plans for him.
He sent him to the "Avguštinej" the elite theological school in Vienna.
Thus Krek went to the capital of the country, at the time, to study the sacred sciences.
In Vienna, he got to know new dimensions of social problems, brought by the industrial revolution.
He also noticed that the Church has already been preparing for the challenges of the new era ...
This movement had several names: it was called Christian socialism in some countries.
But this name is being lost right, socialism sounds bad. Elsewhere it was called the Christian People's Movement.
Again, others were rightfully named the Christian socialist.
Now, the fraze Christian democracy is widely spread.
Yes, Krek became publicly present at the beginning of a very dynamic political movement
and national-political events in Slovenia.
Before this, awakening arose during the Taffean government,
because the regime in the previous liberal government was, of course,
a regime where purely free political activity was not allowed.
For some four years in Vienna, Krek got used to these ideas,
and he evolved them and practically realized them
in the so-called Christian Social Movement of the Karl Lueger Circle in Vienna.
In fact, this movement had a big influence at the time
and brought Vienna's workers together in order to unite and with the guide of the state law,
that is to say, the workers had to organize themselves, the state helps them achieve an appropriate legal basis
and of course employers must then also accept these conditions, thus enabling workers to connect and unite.
This was, in fact, the biggest problem in Slovenia and the world,
.that employers opposed to organization and self-organization of workers because they were trying to,
somehow achieve, that the workers would not be united, so they could be manipulated easier
Thus, Krek's action was actually dedicated to exactly that, organization and self-organization of the workers
and by that making them more resilient to exploitation by employers.
In Slovenia, it was then known that Krek was even called a revolutionary in a clerical collar.
In this respect, the Circular Rerum Novarum was very important because it encouraged the integration and organization of workers.
Interestingly, at the same time Durkheim also showed that atomization of society presents a very weak point in society.
And that the integration at an intermediate level is sociologically important.
So we have a period in which a new society, an industrial society, is being formed
Krek's return to homeland coincided with the 1st Slovenian Catholic rally.
There, with his clearly spoken word, he addressed the crowd ...
We must imagine that we're not giving workers grace, but justice.
The two concepts are confusing and blame it all on social pretensions: money and mankind.
Money is everything, man is nothing, this is the rule of the present era.
We must return the true meaning of money to God, in Christianity, as well as in mankind.
The worker must be given the opportunity to get some things to call his own; Everyone has rights, even the worker.
His organization was a workers' organization, which, of course, even at the start was a competitor to social democracy,
which, however, developed under the influence of Germans, through German workers, mostly working on the rail-road.
Krek went in a different direction and of course, on a national level, he had a very large reach.
The second question, which was very typically Slovenian, was a peasant question.
Namely, in this economic growth on one side, yet others have failed.
Capitalism, which is spreading, is helping some in the development, and destroying the others.
Well, here, especially, Krek's work is nationally political: to save the Slovene people from disappearance.
Before emigration. Before the economic collapse, etc.
From this point of view, now how someone evaluates Krek is, of course, a matter of analysis.
Those who look only in the direction of economic growth - do not agree with Krek,
because Krek is fighting for the survival and having decent living conditions.
When Krek talked about work, for example, profit was not at the forefront, nor work, nor production or consumption, but humanity.
So work should serve the man and not the other way around.
) I think that for Krek there were two key things: he had great pedagogical talent and personal experience of poverty
And a role model on how to deal with poverty, on behalf of his mother.
Even if you are poor, you can help the ones that are poorer, just as his mother did, and just as he did his entire life.
Krek seems to me primarily that he is the man of that era.
A man who understood society well, the issue of distress of many people, workers and peasants
at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentiest century.
I think Krek can not be separated from the situation and those circumstances.
He was a priest, precisely in the sense that he tried to help people live their lives to the fullest.
Slovene Catholic farmers were pushed around by everyone that had power,
and their representatives were despised in the provincial assembly.
The Slovenian priest was like a leperd, who is not wanted among people, persecuted in his homeland.
Although Krek was present at a time when numbers of farmers were still very high on our soil,
and the industry was barely beginning to pave the way for the working class,
he almost with prophecy addressed their problems as well.
How did the Church take his work?
We have to say that the official Church, which is in fact, the Pope, and the Church in our country actually supported him,
although we know from Jeglič's dairy that Jeglič also had reservations about Krek.
Mostly he saw his success as a social worker and we have to say that Krek was actually the driving force
of the Christian organization of people, farmers with cooperatives, and workers with workers' societies
who began to develop after Krek's arrival to Slovenia.
Krek actually lived among people. All the time he was at their disposal,
in the off hours at the Theological Faculty, outside of the scope of his parliamentary function, he always was among the people.
He was a man who really saw his actualization in living for others
and knew how to talk to people from his heart and then he showed them how to get united.
In his book Krek, Ruda Jurčec wrote that, for example, Krek didn't have a problem speaking to thousands of people,
and people came and somehow blindly followed him, if we can say that.
With contacts with new people he realized how helpless the individual is facing dificulties of the era.
He encouraged people to unite for their rights and achieve change for the better.
He achieved this by connecting people to cooperatives and other societies and associations ...
Look, Krek, if we look from the standpoint of farmers, did a great deal,
did a lot of things in organizing co-operatives.
Cooperatives, if they are as they should be, they are a lot of help to farmers, great help.
I am, well let's say this, when they said it is, at that time they said
Krek is a socialist in a black clerical collar, is he not? I will say this, this about socialism
I think, the debate can, be omitted, because that is, this is an utopian project, is not it?
But such socialism as Krek imagined, well that's something else.
That is, Krek mostly organized co-operatives,
not only for the peasant, but also the workers', consumer cooperatives, buyers cooperatives,
and cooperatives which helped workers build family homes - that was Krek's work.
It is clear, from many of his letters, that it is clearly visible when he is struggling.
Again, it is about letters that he's written to his friends - priests, for example, Markun, Oblak, Bizjan, Demšar and so on.
encourages them to work to establish, for example, cooperatives that help poor people.
For example he encouraged priest Oblak in Šentlovrenc in Dolenjska, and later he founded a cooperative for pig farmers.
And we have well-known reports that they prepared, raised, and harvested 2,000 to 3,000 animals a year,
and that in fact the wide surroundings of Dolenjska were getting from them young cattle,
a good breed, well - fed.
And to many who were poor, who themselves were not able to pay for these young pigs,
they were given, they were only paid later on when they were raised,
when they had money to pay back with.
This is one of the many examples of how he's helping young people,
especially from poorer backgrounds, to get food and earn money so that they could in some way live decent.
Krek wanted to help with working here and now to improve the system, here and now
in contrast to the revolutionaries who said,
after we are in power, we will do this and this - it will be paradise on earth , but well, only briefly,
yet Krek knew it would not be so, so he worked, as I said, here and now.
And so we also worked in a cooperative society - we did not wait for the system to collapse,
which ultimately happened, almost unexpectedly, well I expected this decay for ten years, but almost unexpectedly.
That's why we were doing this precisely in this way within the system, whatever was possible to do at that time.
That's how Krek worked.
So organize yourselves and do it like this.
He was not the advocate of liberalism, nor the advocate of work, such as that,
but the kind of advocate who would then act in society with ethical posture.
So, in the foreground there is a person, not work.
Neither the market nor the benefits
And in this sense, I think that the basic thing with Krek is that he actually offered a third option.
Neither liberal individualism nor competition, nor a socialist collective economy,
but a third, the possibility that people connect with each other and form their own initiatives,
taking into account concrete social realities, and try to come up with an answer.
That are cooperatives. These are "posojilnice" .
There are all these intermediate levels of human organizations in the economic field and in the cultural field.
Therefore, the foundation of Krek's movement is empowerment of mankind as as a human being and community.
So that people can connect, with their own resources
and, of course, with someone who shares their vision, and together to replay to demands of life.
Of course, Krek also had connections with people who later founded European links.
For example, Alcide de Gasperi was Krek's contemporary in Vienna in the parliament,
and this movement in fact, later laid the foundations that we talk about in the unification of Europe,
because the essential idea was that people connect to each other in order to achieve as big as possible organic social network
and that this kind of social life will actually function.
Union on it's own was not enough to make a change.
Krek was aware that people should also be educated, to understand the functioning of economic system.
This is a prerequisite to be actively involved in tnis union.
The new path started by Krek is the education or training of the workers.
And this education, in fact, also out grows from the workers' societies, to the so-called, Slovene Christian Social Union,
with a network of societies throughout Slovenia.
This was not just about the workers' societies, but very diverse, most often cultural societies that were all over Slovenia.
Krek was also very keen on schooling farm girls.
And he writes about the school in the Uršulin monastery in Mekinje. This is what he writes to Markun, among others
For women continuation of education in Mekinje.
Nuns are supposed to make a school for farm girls. Come by, when there's a chance and talk to sister Victoria.
It would be nice.
Of course, the household class should have livestock breeding, dairy farming, poultry farming and so on.
They would get support.
I would, however, like to see that the idea and the application to the peasant society and the regional committee, come from the people.
The Farmers Union seems to be ready for this. I leave this matter in your hands.
Imagine one small farmer, not one small farmer who scolds everyday life here somewhere on a hill,
he is not handy with money, he is quite indebted, and there are also taxes, which he can not even handle.
They say that taxes were not as severe as people were having hard a time with them, and did not pay them ...
and there is one proposal, one to bring things together, for one village savings bank,
which we will even build together, and we will learn how to handle money, and we will help each other, through this savings bank.
He saw workers' societies primarily as educational societies.
That is, he said:
"Workers and employers are on the same boat. If you do good, this ship will sail well, it will go where you want it to.
If you're doing bad things to one another, and especially if you're fighting, this ship will sink.
And you will have serious problems. "
That's one thing.
If we are all on the same boat, and if we are doing everything in order to think roughly in the same way,
what is needed first? To understand each other.
That is why Krek spent a lot of time educating his employees on the logic,
the economic logic that leads the employer.
For over 20 years, Krek has managed to expand the network of cooperatives, credit institutions and societies throughout Štajerska and Kranjska.
More than 100,000 people worked in them!
All this was achieved without the means of communication available to us today.
I think Krek understood politics in a party-based way, but even stronger than that in the broader sense.
And politics in the broader sense is something that is humane.
It's working for a joint life.
The parties, as far as they are concerned, of course, follow this.
As far as they are working for their own interest, the parties are essentially a hindrance to healthy politics, and we see it enormously today.
Dr. Krek and dr. Sushteršič did not start with politics, but started with civil society and the economy.
That is to say, they understood that for successful functioning in politics, they need a base in civil society and in the economy.
Politics, of course, was an automatic, self-evident part.
See how he stands for the worker. He said:
"My logic is like this: if no workers' candidate is elected, to join the Vienna Parliament, there is no place for me in the delegation.
That's just a fact. I can handle anyything, but to be beaten by social democracy, which I myself and my poor colleagues have abolished, as in no other country. I can not.
If I had to separate myself from my comrades, if the bishops were punishing me, I would still not let the workers down.
Because I know that in this logic, which I have and in this prognosis, which is the fruit of a thorough study, nobody can stop me. " He proclaims determine.
In addition to his commitment to workers and farmers, Krek also devoted much of his power to nationality issues in politics.
So he was among the initiators of the May Declaration.
Krek was, of course, convinced and pragmatic Yugoslav, I do not know that, but he was from Yugoslavia,
he was like Korošec later. Korošec said that even the worst Yugoslavia is still the best solution for Slovenia,
and now I even believe that it was really like that then.
and they didn't see any other way out
But, sometimes, we sometimes think that Slovenia or Slovenes in 1918 should have taken a different path,
but there was probably no other option, and that this, really was, as bad as it was, still the best choice.
And, yes, that's how it was with all of our politicians - that is, including Krek.
He wanted to save, save the people from disappearance, as a politician, of course.
Then, there may have been a million of us pressed by three, four different sides,
and a, then someone, even said that they should just germanize these few Slovenes, so that then there will be finally peace.
Well, Krek did not think like that, and neither do I.
Many thought that they misunderstood the May Declaration, as if Krek was not for Slovenia, but Yugoslavia.
It should be understood that at that moment one small Slovenia probably could not exist.
So it is necessary to look for a way of possible cooperation and one large community of Slavs can fight
against the Italians, against the Austrians, against the Hungarians.
Of course, with so many projects things did not go smoothly.
His ideas brought about such powerful changes that many could not accept them ...
His mother said that Krek once told her that they want to burry him alive.
This meant that, both inside the Church and within his political career, he had great, severe problems
with persuading people that it was the right thing, that it was the right way to do it, as he's shown it works.
As a politician he could not avoid personal attacks.
After his death, his bitter political opponents also acknowledged his greatness.
Ivan Tavčar wrote to Krek's friend Finžgar:
"Slovenes did not have a bigger man than Krek and we will never have one like that again"
In spite of these attacks, Krek also performed his services for the welbeing of the people, especially those on the edge of society.
Priests do not have a family. We live often lonely, scattered over lonely perishes.
Both of which consequentially have the effect that some gentlemen, otherwise golden souls, are somewhat cumbersome.
What should replace the family in the priests life?
The entire perish!
I know the parishioners, in their eyes you can see restlessness when their last hour is approaching,
who are happy and saddened with their farans like their fathers do.
The father's relationship with the farans and the study keep the priest flexible.
I do not think Krek can't be understood without Christianity. He was a priest.
He was not the one who might develop his theological vision in the sense of learning about God,
but instead from the spiritual foundation of the evolution of the person and his relationship to God
on the basis of ethics, then developed his social doctrine, which was very similar and closely followed the social science of Churches then.
his priesthood comes from precisely this, mercy to the poor, the love of thea neighbor,
and what Christ himself proclaimed, everything, for the fellow man, for the salvation of mankind,
not only spiritually, but also material, is it not?
Krek, himself argues that a poor farmer who does not have anything to eat, how can he think about God.
It's impossible, right, isn't he?
Then, of course, one aspect, which of course is also very important and could be attributed to Krek as a priest,
and I think (50) that not only Krek as a priest, he would do it if he was not a priest - He said:
"Workers must be aware that we are in God's hands."
Therefore, he also promoted prayer in these workers' societies, encouraged every work to begin and end with prayer.
The link between prayer and work, between worrying and eternal happiness, between economic and religious life,
must always be emphasized because we are so prone to forgetting it
We must remember that, in the name of "Christian socialism," "Christian", must not be an ornament,
instead Christianity has to become of utmost importance to our socialism, to our clear validity.
As a priest, Krek is important for me and inspiring, because he has shown this deep connection between the gospel and society,
between the gospel and social ethics.
Gospel, which does not change society for the better, is not gospel.
If I were to say so - now this is not the theology of liberation
however, with Krek this liberating power of the gospel is noticed.
The socially liberating power of gospel at work. At work.
That which, after 2nd WW. got so heavily anchored in theological mentality - either in the theology of liberation;
but above all it was then crowned in the social science of the Church of Janez Pavel II.
By the way, let me note in connection to this, that Krek was very supportive of education for young people,
that all the work that they have been doing so far, Krek himself included, and especially the various priests,
in the economic, cultural , social field, to be taken over by laymen, educated laymen.
And I must say that Krek was very, very advanced for his time.
While some priests insisted that they still retain those of their positions, so to speak,
in the area of economy, politics, culture, social, Krek sees this to be given to the lay people.
The priest should pay homage to his pastoral work.
Ans what is outside of this, however, should be taken over by the lay people.
So Krek is the one who has influenced in this regard a new way in society and, of course, also in the Church.
There are only a few perserved details left by Krek's Institutions.
The rest are changes in the minds and hearts of the generations, who for years have kept the memory of this great comerad.
But what can Krek teach us today?
Undoubtedly, in these new conditions, without the external enemy, we have regretfully forgotten Krek's social issue.
And I think that many disasters of later times can be found in this faze of forgetting Krek,
the social issue and, unfortunately insensitivity of the Church to the social issue. Krek was very much needed.
Krek was a forgotten personality, we know that.
Let's see how many pages, how many minutes are there, how many minutes are spoken throughout the entire period of Krek in schools?
Minutes, I'm talking about minutes.
Am, there is no way that a young person knows today who Dr. Krek was.
Oton Župančič wrote about him reading people like others read books.
Sees their needs. And he's from a farming background, living in a community and and in an emerging working class.
which has needs to be spoken to in a gospel manner, as a Christian.
Today, in our time, when radical individualism came to the point that people are not even egoists,
but simply do not have anyone to talk to.
And then they go to therapists or psychiatrists, because they are lonely,
not because they have psychological problems,
but connecting is the only way that people somehow manage to live with each other.
And when you live with someone, you suddenly see that problems you have are not as difficulty
as they are no longer the same, they no longer have the same weight.
For example, people in the end, at the end of the 19th century did not travel so much and today,
or even the last, I would say, 50 or 70 years, even the simplest, the poorest, the least educated man can travel more.
The question is if he reflects more.
Because, in the winter evenings in a lonely farm, lets say, next to the Mohorjanke, they were not just reading,
but they were also reflecting, there were conversation, there was also learning, some kind of culture of learning.
While saturation with media, today,
the saturation with electronic media actually invites to the oposite and also makes it thrive,
towards great superficiality, a great global even viewing perspective, in the complete absence of reflection.
This situation from 100 years ago - then it was an industrial revolution
- the situation we have today is the cybernetic revolution, and this power over the little man still expresses itself through dispersment.
half of employees, lose their job, but what does the other half do?
Nothing! Because they're afraid they'll lose theirs jobs too.
This is happening in the center of Ljubljana, this is happening in excellent working environments,
such as, for example, editors of some big media also.
And, of course, in this dispersion - if I say so - capital strengths over the individual, and shapes it, and plays with it.
And then here there must be someone who can connect it. Krek knew that. Do our trade unions know that today?
Krek's society, that is, a cultural society - it seems to me that this is really the symbolic beginning of an idea,
which dr. Krek lived when he said, but the emphasis is on cooperation, on organizations, on society, - on societies !
They were embroided throughout the whole of Slovenia in his time, weren't they? But why?
Because this means that every individual must get rid of egoism, but not his own path, and through that find some money, honor, and power.
But, he already knew, it is important to live in a community or in a united community, - it is necessary to cooperate,
because through this you are shaped as a human, don't you?
With this you die in selfishness, you are forced to live in one community,
that is to say, let your own idea die, so that you can live in a community, and this is a society, is it not?
So, I am absolutely convinced that Janez Evangelist Krek is still very present today, that he is actually with us,
that he did never passed, but he shows us the way today that is equally relevant than it was in his time,
because there are people , many in need, because the state is giving up, it can not keep up,
because the market for many, for many services does not actually function, it is also abused,
we witnessed a multitude of cases across Europe and across our land
Which means that his messages are in some, in a desire to overcome an individual, for community to achieve something,
but not because of the idea, but because of work, with work, and through work,.
This need is very strong today. People do not want to be supported of the state, they want to work.
Perhaps not everyone, maybe someone needs help, a hand, an encouragement, I'll say maybe even a stick,
but, in fact, people want to work with creativity. Creativity, creativity makes it work.
And those are the thoughts Krek lived, encouraged, advocated for, and are still current today.
Nowadays, when work is often very instrumentalized, as only the means to get money
those who earn well, often exaggerate with work, and then without any deeper meaning spend money,
it is necessary to return to this essential lesson of work. Work is because and for living with our dignity.
The work that does not help a person fully or at least enables you to live your dignity
should be called into question.
Above all, I would say that Krek was a man who gave himself fully to what he believed.
Here he took the starting point of the gospel, and he took all his knowledge, intellectual, theological, social science
He put all his energy into this project, in which he believed it needed to be carried out.
And here I think that in both religious sense and in the social sense we all have a lot of reserves.
And in this sense, I think that Krek has much to teach us.
Krek always based everything on what a small person experiences, feels. Take others trouble as his heartache.
That passion is missing from today's politics.
To take ... your love for this nation passionately and you're dying form that passion
and I will do everythingto make the people better.
He had some kind of love; this is almost something mystical, which he had with the Slovene nation.
And I think that for him the homeland was more important than the state.
This dilema of Krek is equally present today. We should return to the fact that the homeland,
that is, the identity of a single cultural community, which has its own language, has its own history, is more important than the way of managing a community at the state level.
So, if we want to follow Krek, it means following the social circles of the recent Popes, especially Janez Pavel II, who is very well known, and Pope Francis.
Because Pope Francis has very many moves that are very similar to Janez Evangelist Krek.
Why, because in his life, in Argentina, Pope Francis also got to konw a very similar reality.
Extraordinary hardships of people and the exceptional challenges of life.
I found one connection with that era of the past and the present time immediately in understanding the Pope's calls,
that then Pope Leon XIII, and the current Pope Francis made.
They both warned of the great problem of exploiting people.
And Krek took exceptionally seriously the initiative at the time, and he was convinced,
and in his works he repeatedly said that the clergy also had to go out of the church, learn about how the economic system works and helps people.
I think these two periods are very interconnected. Maybe now the economic system works a little differently, but essentially not.
It is in any case for the exploitation of people, which can be a little more complicated during this era and I think that in this time we are all in fact facing the same challenges.
That was one thing, the second thing: he had a very simple philosophy:
YOU ONLY NEED TO BEGIN
What you think someone should do, start doing it.
And I think that this is a very simple philosophy for economists, social scientists, the politics of today, theologian, and probably everyone else.
I think that even Christians , we can ask ourselves how actively we are responding to the challenges of the time we live in,
with those issues that disturb us in our enviorment.
And how much do we expect others to do something about it, and how much do we engage ourselves?
I believe Krek's wisdom is very simple, you just need to begin.
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