On this Beautiful Labor Day holiday Monday, Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you Mr Michael Thomas of Sharon, to discuss the idea of Distributism, a political and economic program influenced by Catholic social teaching, the RERUM NOVARUM, an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, and the ideas of such early 20th century thinkers as G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc.
Mr. Sharon describes Distributism thusly -
"A good social order is one which guarantees the rights of property to the widest amount of people, and that helps them turn that property productive for their own use first."
“Well distributed private property is very, very, different, than equally distributed government property.”
Or as Chesterton put it, everyone gets 3 acres and a cow.
Through this wide ranging chat, we go through the history of Distributism as an idea, the Catholic Land Movement, and make diversions into critiques of our degenerate zeitgeist and economic situation, eventually landing on how Distributism can be applied to many economic markets, including trucking.
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You can read Pope Leo XIII encyclical RERUM NOVARUM here.
The U.S. Catholic Land Movement website
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023-conference/
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On Distributism, with Michael Thomas of Sharon