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The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives May 13, 2012 18:05
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Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage May 13, 2012 18:05
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Movie Review: Money as Debt May 8, 2012 11:05
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The Outline of Sanity May 7, 2012 15:05
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Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism April 29, 2012 19:04
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Distributism in Eastern Europe
The newly-formed Romanian Distributist League “Ion Mihalache” marks a first victory for Distributism in Romania. It should come as no surprise that Distributism is being touted as the best vehicle for radical change in this post-communist country.
The Restoration of Property
The change in philosophy is our root difficulty, but the second is that it has produced a certain state of society. It is a state in which by far the greater part of men are attuned to being wage slaves, that is, a state of society in which a man is more afraid of losing his job than of anything else.
Two Difficulties
Injustices must be removed, bad systems changed, human values made effective once more in their right order. But these things cannot be done so long as the men and women of the nation are ignorant, apathetic, even antagonistic to what they ought to cherish.
On Joe Carter on Distributism
Distributism recognizes man’s vices and specifically tries to limit the damage they do to the body politic. Capitalism, on the other hand, celebrates those vices (or one of them, at least), and in fact makes one of them the principle of economic action.
The Zuccotti Purge
The point is not that the cops are all bad guys while the occupiers are good, or even that Occupation is itself the answer. Rather, the question is how did it get to the point that many people’s only experience of close-knit community is a protest encampment?
Seeking the Common Good
Citizens is an excellent primer in the Church’s social doctrine. Handy study questions that follow each chapter make it perfect for classroom use as well as for independent study with friends or within the parish.
The Guild System
Every kind of good would flow from the re-establishment of the Guild, and without the re-establishment of the Guild the effort to maintain well-distributed property, even if we had already achieved that good distribution, would be vain.
Communism Has Failed
There are four main proposals offered for setting things right again. The first three are false remedies, the fourth is the true remedy, which is the restoration of property, the building up of economic freedom for the mass of men, and the re-creating that independence of the family which industrial capitalism has destroyed.
There Was a Socialist
It is not Socialism for the State to endow hospitals, any more than for the State to support reformatories. Socialism is not a condition in which the government can help hard cases or protect and patch up economic evils; it has that power in every healthy Distributist community.
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