“It is being generally acknowledged that….”
The “appeal to consensus” is one of the weakest forms of the “appeal to authority” fallacy.
This is set forth brilliantly in The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome -- by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Having read that, I am comfortable skipping the efforts of a contemporary sociologist. That said, his premise is solid.
Thank you for posting. He is right.
From the jacket.....
“Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University.
In this unjustly forgotten work Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States.
Zimmerman traces the evolution of family structure from tribes and clans to extended and large nuclear families to the small nuclear families and broken families of today.
And he shows the consequences of each structure for the bearing and rearing of children; for religion, law, and everyday life; and for the fate of civilization itself.”
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Chesterton and Belloc recommended Distributism. It appears to be doing well in the Basque community of Mondragon in Spain. Also, there are a number of Distributist organizations who conduct regular conferences.
The socialists call the distributists capitalists, while the capitalists call them socialists. So there might be something there.
There is always Capital, therefore there is always Capitalism, it’s all about who controls Capital, the individual, or the State.