There really is something pathetic about the somewhat silly socialists who have been demonstrating against Wall Street in recent days. In spite of the murder of millions of people in many parts of the world on the altar of Marxism, these utopian robots still seem to think that Big Government can bring justice to the poor. It’s all so naïve and so rooted in a shallow gullibility. When will they ever learn? The solution to the usurious greed of Wall Street is not the failed and false solutions of the Marxist past but the timeless truths about human nature and human society encapsulated in the ideas of subsidiarity and distributism. As such, this flyer, produced by the Society for Distributism, cuts through the cant of Marxism and Marketolatry. One can only hope that its wisdom will find fertile soil among those who are genuinely able to break out of the rut of discredited ideology.
Socialist nonsense Versus Subsidiarist Solutions
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Joseph Pearce is a Catholic author and biographer who has written about subjects as various as GK Chesterton, economics, and Shakespeare.
Whatever is contrary to the laws of God can’t succeed indefinitely. Our economic system has been doomed from its beginning, as C.S. Lewis suggested, because it’s founded on usury. I think people sense that change–big, “revolutionary”–is coming, and there is foreboding everywhere.
But change, when it’s authentic, turns out to be no change at all, really; rather, an affirmation of something that already existed, quietly (not angrily), beneath the surface. The American Revolution is an example of that kind of “change” that wasn’t real change. There is superficial confusion, a kind of chaos, and then order (the change) arises from underneath, appearing from the proverbial straw. King George’s imposition of “taxation without representation” might have been that straw in the American Revolution. The tax didn’t cause the revolution, it was a mere catalyst for what already existed–loyalty to the crown was already dead; identity as “American” and not as “English” was already a reality.
When change is not authentic, it is order imposed on chaos, rather than arising naturally from it. The Bolshevik Revolution is an example. And many others. Presently, we have the “silly protesters”, along with what and whom they represent, seeking to impose the order they want on chaos that–while we may sense it coming–is not yet here. The Tea Party tries to forestall change–which is really just another attempt to impose a desired order.
What will arise is no doubt still a long way off. We may hope it’s some form of subsidiarity. But one thing is certain: if that–or any other sort of order–is imposed, it will not last. An authentic change in order comes from the natural free condition of man, a condition he’s born with–whether he likes it or not. Imposed order doesn’t last because it contradicts that freedom, whether that freedom is acknowledged or not; real order lasts because it accommodates it.