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Offline conclavist

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Distributism. Catholic or not?
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2015, 01:11:38 PM »
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  • I've seen
    http://mtm.ufsc.br/~mcarvalho/DISTRIBUTISM.pdf

    Haven't read all of it.

    Here are a few links for reading:

    http://ihspress.com (google books and find on archive.org and others)
    distributistreview.com/
    http://distributist.blogspot.com
    http://distributism.blogspot.com
    http://practicaldistributism.blogspot.com

    TraditionInAction is very critical of distributism. I don't find their criticism convincing:
    http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/j005htGill_Distributism_Odou.htm

    Distributism seems like Catholic principles, especially papal encyclicals of Social Teaching, applied to society and economics.

    Google around also for info on the "Catholic Land Movement" which was tied to Distributists.
    http://newcatholiclandmovement.org
    http://acatholiclandmovement.blogspot.com

    Summary of Catholic land movement:
    http://www.catholicpamphlets.net/pamphlets/The%20CATHOLIC%20LAND%20MOVEMENT.pdf

    One distributist said to check out:
    http://pennyjustice.com

    Catholic Social Teaching vs. Libertarian economists:
    http://libertariansandcatholicsocialteaching.blogspot.com/2010/10/catholic-libertarian-thomas-woods-and.html

    Definitions of distributism seem to vary, but it seems to be the attempt to "distribute property as widely as possible".

    The dominant economic schools seem to be Austrianism vs. Keynesianism: another battle of false alternatives, in my opinion.

    How the money power created Austrianism:
    https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/how-the-money-power-created-libertarianism-and-austrian-economics/

    Church History by Tan Books said: "The early disciples practiced a species of communism". This, of course, was not to endorse communism, which is condemned, but I found it interesting that they used this exact phraseology. The key difference was that the sharing was voluntary, of course.
    https://tanbooks.benedictpress.com/index.php/Church-History

    I don't think the Church has a set "ism" for economics according to Catholic Action books I've seen, besides excluding that which it condemns officially like atheistic Communism. I think distributism gets more at how a Catholic economy should look like under Christendom.


    Offline Viva Cristo Rey

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    Distributism. Catholic or not?
    « Reply #16 on: March 21, 2015, 12:07:55 AM »
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    « Reply #17 on: March 21, 2015, 12:25:47 AM »
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    Distributism. Catholic or not?
    « Reply #18 on: March 21, 2015, 04:42:28 PM »
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  • Real Distributism can be Catholic, not the ape version propagated by socialist Francis.
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