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The great mistake made in regard to the matter now under consideration is to take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and the working men are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict. So irrational and so false is this view that the direct contrary is the truth. Just as the symmetry of the human frame is the result of the suitable arrangement of the different parts of the body, so in a State is it ordained by nature that these two classes should dwell in harmony and agreement, so as to maintain the balance of the body politic. Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order, while perpetual conflict necessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity. Now, in preventing such strife as this, and in uprooting it, the efficacy of Christian institutions is marvellous and manifold. First of all, there is no intermediary more powerful than religion (whereof the Church is the interpreter and guardian) in drawing the rich and the working class together, by reminding each of its duties to the other, and especially of the obligations of justice(RN 19)
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| The Church and the Land by Fr. Vincent McNabb |
Fr. McNabb was one of the greatest, most passionate, and most fiercely committed of the Distributists. Refusing to take "no" for an answer, Fr. McNabb insisted on the subordination of economic life to morality and common sense. This book, The Church and the Land, is a collection of just a sampliong of his essays and articles, in which he explains the basics of his vision for social order. A vision at the center of which is religion, the family, and the land.
With a new Preface by Dr. William Fahey.
An Essay on the Restoration of Property
by Hilaire Belloc
Belloc's Essay on the Restoration of Property is a unique and engaging look at the economic landscape of the civilized West before the "triumph" of capitalism, and a sketch of how that landscape can be restored. Belloc argues, convincingly and persuasively, that the concentration of productive wealth in relatively few hands is a historical abberation, and that it did not arise out of necessity, but as a result of poor decisions made by free men. Reverse those decisions, and you reverse and improve the economic situation of masses of people.
Ethics and the National Economy
by Fr. Rupert Ederer
Ethics and the National Economy was written by Jesuit Fr. Heinrich Pesch in 1917 as part of a symposium of Catholic thinkers on the problem of Christian Natural and International Law. His contribution stresses a truth which is as fundamental as it is today neglected: that morality must govern economic life. Taking apart the various aspects of economic activity, Fr. Pesch throws the light of the Moral Law on such topics as the manufacture of material goods, exchange of goods, remuneration and wages, justice in pricing, and of course he looks at what he calls the two "absurd consequences" of the individualist, free-market school of thought: Capitalism and Socialism.
Flee to the Fields
the Catholic Land Movt. Papers
Flee to the Fields is a collection of essays by the leaders of the English Catholic Land Movement explaining the whys and wherefores of life on the land. Spearheaded by men such as Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., Commander Herbert Shove, D.S.O., R.N., Harold Robbins, and others, the Movement was a practical embodiment of the salutary truth that economic life must be rooted in the basics of agriculture, property ownership, and freedom.
With a new Preface by Dr. Tobias Lanz.
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The over-riding theme of the book is that the original unity of distributive and corrective justice that prevailed in both economics and moral discourse until the 16th and 17th centuries was shattered by the rise of an "individualistic" capitalism that relied on corrective justice (justice in exchange) only. The rise of individualistic business practice was paralleled by a movement in moral thinking from a discourse of virtue and the common good to a discourse of utilitarianism and "emotivism"; individual preference became all that mattered, and only the market is capable of correlating individual preferences. An economics that lacks a distributive principle will attain neither equity nor equilibrium and will be inherently unstable and increasingly reliant on government power (Keynesianism) to correct the balances. Catholic social teaching emphasizes equity in the distribution of land, the means of production, and a just wage.
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