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Here is a very good article along with a group of other great writings on Distributism

Excellent article. Thank you. One sentence stuck in my quick overview (I have it saved, will read in depth later):

Capitalism, therefore, is understood by Fanfani to be an absolutist system, whose dominant ideas color the entire mental life of those who live within capitalist society. Every goal, every desire, every institution, every attitude is, to a greater or lesser extent, shaped and "tinted" by the primary idea of capitalism which is maximum individual economic profit

The sad part is that to Calvinists it's not an economic system—it's a biblical economic system! I am really surprized that we have passed child labor laws as early as they were passed, given that one can always say "God works through child labor laws to bring us to Him..."

But capitalism is based on natural law, for everyone knows that having is better than not having and having more is better than having less. This way of thinking is entirely a product of the fallen human psyche in love with the world.

You know there is a young man (23 years old) who asked a question in Afghanistan based on the information he downloaded from the Internet. Yhe question was "why is it okay fore a man to have more than one wife but not for a woman to have more than one husband?" A deadly qurestion.

For "insulting" Islam, he was sentenced to death by hanging. When I asked a question why did communist regimes have only one party, I was nearlly expelled from school in former Yugoslavia. And here on FR, for simply saying "big oil" I was called a commie. How ironic is that?

We are dealing here with the same mind, regardless of location.