Monday, November 7, 2011
Should I become a distributist?
Ron Colombo is intrigued by the new signs of life for "distributism." Should I join the seemingly merry band, or does the distributist "criticism of the market" reflect "a naivete regarding the state that almost defies belief coming from a serious Catholic?" I'm not sure I want to pitch a tent in lower Manhattan, but if the movement lets me get all Chestertonian and discuss weighty topics over a pint in a dark pub somewhere, sign me up.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/11/should-i-become-a-distributist.html
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Rob, I think there's a lot of good stuff in "distributism" -- it's more, in my view, a sensibility than a policy program, but it's one in which concerns about equality, and stake-holding, and the connection between citizen-empowerment and property ownership co-exist with an emphasis on localism, pluralism, and non-statism. It's hard (for me, anyway) to know what the on-the-ground policy implications of "distributism" are, but there's *something* -- something "Catholic" -- there. (As you know, I don't think the OWS business has much to recommend it, and is in fact benefitting from a striking double-standard in terms of press coverage and analysis, but that's another matter.)