Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Defining Distributism 16
This has got to be the most simple-minded definition of distributism to ever come out of the pen of GK Chesterton, but I can put it even simpler:
Distributism is collectivephobia.
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What, haven't you figured out his password already? ;)
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Right, because forcing upon people how they must go about earning a living, not to mention ensuring a certain outcome in the collective, is sooo anarchistic. I guess you mean the code word the mainstream news media uses for Marxist revolutionaries who protest G8 summits and want to usher in dictatorial communism.
I believe it goes like this:
Right-winger who wants to control people in a few ways: Teh repressive authoritarian!!!
Left-winger who wants to control people in all but a few ways: Teh freedom-loving a
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Replace collective with household and country with family, and you have distributism. All of the athoritarianism is still there, it's just wielded over a smaller, more manageable number of people is all.
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And you're being misleading as well:
* "Rugged individualism" is collectivephobia. A philosophy of forced, pre-planned distribution of anything across a collective is hardly collectivephobia.
* And there's no way you're really for only redistributing equally amongst just family members within a household, and okay with vast inequities between households.
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* "Rugged individualism" is collectivephobia. A philosophy of forced, pre-planned distribution of anything across a collective is hardly collectivephobia."
A good distributist IS a rugged individualist- far more rugged than YOU will ever be. The best distributists live off grid, on their own land, using barter instead of money.
Ideally, the basic unit of a distributist society is the sovereign family. No higher collective is needed or wanted, but families can freely join together to create a community and h
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It's hard to call someone a rugged individualist when their philosophy is to depend on the collective to distribute and redistribute to them their means of survival.
My understanding is that distributism is the *perpetual* control of *recurring* base starting point*s*, towards *controlling outcomes* to the extent of preventing the situation of some people from not having enough to f
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Of course I have. You just don't like that I don't like what you wish to impose on me.
No one finds equality offensive, just Leftists' ways of trying to get there.
FTFY. Right-wingers crave the pursuit of money, for more control over their lives, and Left-wingers crave the
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Has it ever occurred to you that many of the largest institutions in America are free market corporations?
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I may be misusing the term but I think of sectors as American institutions, and not individual organizations within that sector of America.
Education - taken over by the Left
Journalism - taken over by the Left
Entertainment - taken over by the Left
Government - taken over by the Left
It can be broken down further as well:
* The Left owns (and by owns I mean has exclusivity on the entity for the promotion of one's values and/or agendas) K-12, college, and prolly even preschool (such as thru Head Start strings att
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Education- Catholic Schools still exist, and serve from preschool age up through doctorate degrees.
Journalism- I read many right wing publications daily. This sector is largely free market still, even if print is dying.
Entertainment- maybe it's because I watch EWTN as much as PBS, but I don't see a takeover of entertainment either. In fact, tonight I'm even going to a first run movie theater to watch _For Greater Glory_, which many believe has a hard right, almost Catholic Propaganda bent (even if the lea
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"It's hard to call someone a rugged individualist when their philosophy is to depend on the collective to distribute and redistribute to them their means of survival."
The collective's job is just to insure that the individual has the tools to insure his OWN means of survival. He still has to work for it. The distributism is in the ownership of productive property, not finished goods.
"My understanding is that distributism is the *perpetual* control of *recurring* base starting point*s*, towards *controllin
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That's not my understanding. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if enough people gamble away their tools of production and are starving, doesn't that usher in another push of the big redistributionist reset button?
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" Correct me if I'm wrong, but if enough people gamble away their tools of production and are starving, doesn't that usher in another push of the big redistributionist reset button?"
That's an illicit transaction under distributism to begin with. You can't sell your tools of production, or your land grant. It is yours from the moment the government gives it to you until the day you die. You own it but you can't sell it. You *could*, if you choose to do something else with your life or live somewhere else