Whatever the root cause of the current “economic crisis” may be, it is clear that what is at threat goes deeper than pension funds, jobs and livelihoods. Every aspect of Western society is being put into question, and rightly so. The great weakness of Capitalism and Socialism (from the point of view of the average man-in-the-street) is that both have ultimately been used to centralize power. Socialism is overtly centralist, advocating a single party political system, communal ownership of everything, but governed centrally, and so forth. Free market (laissez-faire) Capitalism is indirectly centralist in that it promotes monopolies, cartels, corporatism, and various other types of corruption which effectively result in centralized government. Socialism and Capitalism are both failed ideologies because each promotes the ultimate confiscation of wealth from the population, placing it into the hands of a few.

Is there another alternative? Listen in as,  Dr Donald Goodman visits the Backyard to talk about Distributism; the "third way," in opposition to both socialism and capitalism.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/backyardradtrads/2011/04/13/distributism