Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: By Fulton Sheen's Standards, Trump and Clinton are Communist 3
"MOST LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMS, political slogans, and radical catchwords of our times are concerned with the satisfaction of material wants. The Communist catchword is âoejobsâ âoejobsâ âoejobsâ; the politicianâ(TM)s slogan is âoeworkâ âoeworkâ âoeworkâ; the legislatorâ(TM)s promise is âoe[more] material security.â Add to this the sad fact that millions of citizens, whose bodies and souls have been ravaged by a materialist civilization, have reached a point where they are willing to sacrifice the last crumb of liberty for a piece of the cake of security. Reformers [and community organizers] have not understood their cry. Because man make demands for security, our reformers have neglected to inquire what they really want. A starving man asks for bread, when he really wants life. âoeThe body is more than the raiment, and life is more than the food.â The unemployed, the socially disinherited, the poor broken earthenware of humanity ask for âoework,â but what they really want is independence. The normal man does not want to be fed either by a social agency or a state; he wants to be able to feed himself. In other words, he wants liberty. But, as we said in the last chapter, there is only one solid economic foundation for individual liberty and that is a wider distribution of property.
Property is here understood primarily as productive property, such as land, or a share in the profits, management or ownership of industry. Property does not mean a distribution of created wealth [past savings] such as bread, circuses, and jobs, but a redistribution of creative wealth [future earnings]; not rations handed out by an agency or an employer, but a shared ownership of productive goods. Liberty to be real, concrete, and practicable must have a foundation in the economic order; namely, independence."
~ Fulton J. Sheen, Freedom under God, Economic Guarantee of Human Liberty, 1940/2013, (page 49).
I googled the title and what should come up? (Score:1)
This [blogspot.mx]! I do stop by there occasionally. It's kinda... comfortable
If I could express agreement without being merely redundant, I would do so.
But for me, all the reforms called for really confirm that we simply have not risen above/beyond our animal ancestry (contrary to the *fall of man*). In fact the last ten thousand years seem particularly stagnant, especially in light of all the technical progress achieved so far. Little has been learned from it. All the philosophies we publish today are at least that old
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The exact same post on my personal blog comes up *first*? Or do you mean you googled the title of the post (which I'll admit to crossposting) rather than Fulton Sheen's book?
The point is more Belloc's Servile State [slashdot.org], which is also out of copyright by now and whose economic system Fulton Sheen was talking about.
Jobs and wages are nothing compared to ownership. Or even a good partnership- I was reading the TVTropes page today about the Burns and Allen show and came across a quote from 1954- that George had i
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No, just on the first google page, about the 8th down. Amazon always comes up in the number one spot when doing book titles (I wonder why). I copy/pasted the author and title of the book from the bottom of the JE like this into google [google.com] (got different results than from doing it directly. Don't know why. You're a bit further down the page), looking to see if it was downloadable. A lot of Catholicism showed up in the results also. Kept me quite busy for a while.
When I saw the phrase "Servile State" up there, a