I guess it is better to be a serf than to be unemployed.

Feudalism may possibly be the economic system that is rebuilt after the collapse that is likely on the horizon.  But I do not see a large-scale transition from capitalism to feudalism prior to such s collapse.

And if the collapse comes as soon as I expect, then the true Church won't be in a position (barring supernatural provisions, of course) to serve the role that it apparently previously served in feudalistic economies.  And if you're talking about new church, I think its leaders of late would push toward communism if it is strong enough to have that kind of influence.

Certain trads have been speaking of an "imminent" collapse of the world economy for at least the last 25 years.  Forgive me if I am skeptical.

I don't blame you for being skeptical.  I believe that current conditions are making it look more likely though.  It appears to me that practically everything (economy, morality, etc.) has nose-dived from its previously dismal lever over the past 5 - 8 years or so.

But the system I am supporting is a reunification of church and state with no secularism. Not any of the "liberal" stuff nor capitalism.

Blasphemy needs to be punished and ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity needs to be strictly banned with them sent to mental asylums for treatment.

But the system I am supporting is a reunification of church and state with no secularism. Not any of the "liberal" stuff nor capitalism.

At what point do you want this reunification of church and state to occur?  Now?  Amid this crisis?  If so, what church?  The traditional Church is currently too disorganized to fill this role.  New church--well--you said that you don't support of "any of the 'liberal' stuff..."  I would not want to live under the control of any "church" potentially strong enough to fill this role today.

I'm just going to keep praying for a pope, a good pope, or one who believes in God rather than the three amigos and not God.  Can you imagine the Church having the power of the feudal days with Roncalli, Wojtyla, or Bergoglio at the helm?  Where would "tradition" be in that circuмstance...

I'm 42 years old and I don't expect living a long life will be long enough for me to see the crisis in the Church resolved.  Until then, reunification of church and state?  No thank you.

Feudalism is a form of governance, not an economic theory. It might replace our current representative republic, but our current economic system is going to have to be replaced by another economic system.

Our current economic system is indeed Free Market Capitalism - in the only form it can ever exist - a compromised one. True "Laissez-faire" Capitalism can never exist in practice because it is too virulent to thrive - like Ebola in its most aggressive form, it kills the host before it has a chance to propagate itself. Since no halfway sane society would for tolerate for very long the gross abuses and injustices that naturally result from too much capitalism, the state will always (indeed must always) step in and alleviate those abuses by restraining Capitalism (or more accurately, restraining Capitalists) by way of anti-trust laws, child labor laws, union laws, workplace regulation laws, etc, etc, etc... Put simply, Capitalism always leads (paradoxically some might think, but not really) to some form of Socialism (as described by Belloc in The Servile State). As Joe Z states, private ownership in this nation is ultimately controlled by the State - and yet the State is itself in the thrall of International Bankers via the Federal Reserve...

As Chesterton rightly pointed out, the problem with too much Capitalism is that it results in too few Capitalists. And if we're positing a post-collapse return to Catholic Tradition and Catholic Governance (in other words, a much needed return of Western Civilization to Sanity), then I would venture to guess that we'd adopt an economic theory that is also in line with Catholic morality. The definitive text on Catholic morality with respect to economics remains Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, and the only economic theory that can claim to have been designed specifically to conform to that definitive statement of Catholic economic morality is the aforementioned Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton's Distributism (also known as Proprietorism). Therefore, that would be the replacement I would put forth for our current lamentable condition of State Sponsored Usury known commonly as "Capitalism."

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Right now with Capitalism unemployment rates are rising rapidly and soon many people won't be able to find jobs.

Incorrect. US unemployment rates have been dropping for over a year.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

Well over 90 percent of people are employed.

If you can't find a job, then it is probably you that are flawed, not the economic system.

I'm referring to international unemployment rates increasing and how they will skyrocket in long term when added up. Not just the U.S but in countries like Australia and the U.K included.