Do you know about Distributism?

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EIther you have proper market incentives or you don’t. It doesn’t matter what you call it. I have to wonder if Catholics are just trying to get out of supporting conservative and traditional values whenever these kinds of conversations come up. Seems to me like a lot of people put a lot of time and effort to try and agree with western progressives as much as possible. Isn’t that right @SyNoe?
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It is presented as a third way to Capitalism and Socialism, a balanced and Catholic political system if you would.
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Capitalism and socialism are not equal in morality. The Catechism even distinguishes this. And just look around the world. Socialism = epic fail while capitalism works well as long as it’s molded well with anti-trust, no monopolies and the proper consideration for just wages and worker safety.
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What is your opinion of the ideology, and do you think America could see a Distributist party? If so, and they grow powerful enough, would you join the party or vote for Distributist politicians?
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I always vote based on the five non-negotiables and religious freedom. If it takes first world prosperity to collapse in order to do that, then I guess you could say that’s a chance I’m taking. But a society that doesn’t value life and goes after children and orthodox Catholics won’t last long anyways.

As far supporting distributionism goes, the best way you can do that is in the free market. Everything that this calls for basically can be done with demand.
 
I am pro capitalism and anti socialism and communism. That said, it is true that capitalism can be abused, such as the case with crony capitalism, oligopoly, or monopolies. capitalism is not perfect, but then no system is.

I do not know much about distributism, but I am interested in reading Small is Beautiful by EF Schumacher. As for Pope Leo XIII, I am wondering why he hasn’t been canonized up to now.
 
SuperLuigi said:
EIther you have proper market incentives or you don’t. It doesn’t matter what you call it. I have to wonder if Catholics are just trying to get out of supporting conservative and traditional values whenever these kinds of conversations come up.
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I think we can still have a free market and distributism, but like any government some controls may be necessary.
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Capitalism and socialism are not equal in morality. The Catechism even distinguishes this. And just look around the world. Socialism = epic fail while capitalism works well as long as it’s molded well with anti-trust, no monopolies and the proper consideration for just wages and worker safety.
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I totally agree, I think socialism is far worse than even the worst Capitalism, though at the outset capitalism was pretty bad for workers.
SuperLuigi said:
I always vote based on the five non-negotiables and religious freedom.
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Me too.
SuperLuigi said:
As far supporting distributionism goes, the best way you can do that is in the free market. Everything that this calls for basically can be done with demand.
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Free market is great but you have to have policies which encourage such a model, such as even lower taxes for local companies. I don’t know how it could be implemented in our country, but would like to find out.
 
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I am pro capitalism and anti socialism and communism. That said, it is true that capitalism can be abused, such as the case with crony capitalism, oligopoly, or monopolies. capitalism is not perfect, but then no system is.
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For the most part I am too, and have only recently looked at distributism, which would be something to answer that “capitalism isn’t perfect” problem. The way I see it, distributism is even better than Capitalism and Capitalism is the best we’ve got.
 
A few thoughts on private property from last year. It turns out that the main reason widespread private property in capital is so important is not income, but power, as, e.g., Hilaire Belloc hinted in “An Essay on the Restoration of Property” in 1936 when he harshly criticized Major Douglas’s “social credit scheme” for looking only at income. “Power,” as American statesman Daniel Webster said in 1820, “naturally and necessarily follows property” (Michael D. Greaney)

 
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Health care is not a business, but a service to life, pope says
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Health care is not a business, but a service to life, pope says

Pope Francis said, any public policy or private initiative regarding health care that does not make the dignity of the human person its central concern “engenders attitudes that can even lead to exploitation of the misfortune of others. And this is…
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Respectfully opinion Agree with Pope Francis:heart! ❤️ Greatest Commandment does God provided and cover all our man made economic theory?> Love Thy Neighbor as you Love yourself? Along with His Ten Commandments that are to be distributed in providing " Equality Rights, Freedom and Protection for the good of all? Peace 🙂
 
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But it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing situation does it?
When I pay income tax, that’s having my right to those money taken away by the state. That’s socialism by the definition of this article.
The reality is that no one is arguing for absolute socialism just as no one is arguing for absolute capitalism .
 
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No matter what the economic system is, there will be abuses. Making everything smaller could lead to significant problems if we ever needed stuff quickly mass produced. Also, you start running into economy of scale issues.

Further, who gets to determine what is and is not socially just as far as income, housing, transportation, etc. is concerned?
 
It’s a good idea but it’s untested. Its fine if every family had a small business but it probably wouldn’t work for big business. This idea of co-operatives doesn’t seem practical.
 
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