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Catholics, Distributism and Occupy Wall Street
Although most people focus on dissent from dogmatic truths and in certain areas of moral theology, such as contraception or abortion, the social doctrine of the Church is another area in which Catholics have failed to espouse the Church’s teaching.
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.
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.
A Short Primer for Protestors
Distributists realize that we cannot rely simply on good will to establish or maintain a just social order. Many people might be content with sufficient income and never aspire to dominate others economically. But history shows that there are some who will not be content with a reasonable portion of the goods of this world.
Distributism and Marxism
Distributism has little in common with Marxism beyond the fact that it’s not capitalism; sadly, that fact is sufficient for many capitalists to attack Distributism as a brainchild of Engels and Lenin.
Justice, Fairness and Taxation Part Three
We have grown to accept that the government implements programs everyone knows it will have to fund through debt. Once this became the accepted practice, the number of government programs exploded without regard to the means to pay for them.
What is Socialism?
The characterization of the government’s present behavior as “socialist” is a misnomer of the highest order. Socialism was never defined as government intervention into economic life or the running of businesses. If it was virtually every government in history would have to be socialist, even the Bush administration.
Justice, Fairness and Taxation Part One
The conservative/liberal divide is not that of Capitalism versus Socialism; it is the division of two schools of capitalists who are arguing over how much wealth the government should redistribute.