Can Catholics be Geolibertarians?

[Neil_Anthony]

Are catholics allowed to be geolibertarians? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

Is this compatible with catholic social teacing? I think it is but want to make sure.

 

[Neil_Anthony]

I guess I’ll take this to mean that no one objects to being geolibertarian and catholic.

 

[ChrisWRIT]

I guess I’ll take this to mean that no one objects to being geolibertarian and catholic.

I hadn’t personally looked into Geolibertarianism before, so I can’t give a direct answer. I suspect that the same applies to others around here.

From a cursory examination of Geolibertarianism, it appears the primary difference from libertarianism is the view of land as the common property of all mankind, as Henry Clay (?) proposed, while libertarianism (proper) sees land as capital.

I tend to think the common ownership argument has merit, but I haven’t looked into it enough to decide on it. In any case, I would think that yes, Catholics can be Geolibertarians.

Chris

 

[melensdad]

I tend to think the common ownership argument has merit, but I haven’t looked into it enough to decide on it. In any case, I would think that yes, Catholics can be Geolibertarians.

Chris

I don’t see why Catholics can’t join this group.

It does, however seem to be very near socialism and both Pope Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have spoken about the evils of socialism.

A primary tenant of socialism is common ownership of land.

In a practical situation, common land ownership only works in very homogeneous groups and on reasonably small scale (think about an Abbey owning a farm/vineyard/etc). There is no large scale version that I know of common ownership actually working as it was envisioned.