34. Following the lines laid down by the encyclical Rerum novarum and many later documents of the church’s magisterium, it must be frankly recognized that the reaction against the system of injustice and harm that cried to heaven for vengeance13 and that weighed heavily upon workers in that period of rapid industrialization was justified from the point of view of social morality. This state of affairs was favored by the liberal socio-political system which in accordance with its “economistic” premises,