[A. Pole]

Capitalism and communism are siblings — both cannot exist without masses of proles who have nothing to trade but their labor. In order to escape the tyranny of these two monsters, it may be necessary to rethink the relationships between man and capital and man and labor by which our economy has organized itself over the past several centuries since the death of Christendom and the rise of Man, the Measure of All Things. Perhaps we should reconsider the idea of the West as a Christian civilization, and with it the idea of work as both sacrament and vocation.

This deserves a bump!!

[DaGman]

bump again

[Iris7]

The Catholic point of view, as espoused by Chesterton and Belloc, is that Distributism is more in the human scale than "Capitalism" or "Communism", as these words have come to be defined during the 20th Century.

"Distributism" is the point of view that economic action is best suited to man when it involves buying and selling locally, without mass capital. Mega hugeness in enterprise is not inherently desirable, says the Distributist.

[GOP_1900AD]

A TRUE RIGHIST, TRUE CONSERVATIVE bump! Indeed, it has been the fall of the main pillars of Western Civilization - traditional Judeo-Christian living and beliefs among these, which has resulted in many of our current woes!