Tag: Socialism
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Pope Francis and Distributism
There appears to be a new interest in Distributism, possibly because of Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium.” Arthur Hunt in The American Conservative puts the Pope’s message into the context of Catholic social teaching. “The problems of the poor could not be solved by a “simple welfare mentality.” Well, by what then? The document is…
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Gar Alperovitz suggests what the next economic system might look like.
In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also suggests what the next system might look…
The Village Market 