02-26-2009, 12:55 AM
Occhi,
I'm not talking about the impossiblity of any way but rightism and leftism, and to the extent that this is "damn foolishness", you're certainly not arguing against any position I hold. I'm taking about THE third way, the managerialist, wishy-washy creed of Clinton, Blair, and their ilk. They just take the existing political right and the political left, extract bits from both, make weak tea out of it, and sell it to the people with a hearty dose of artificial sweetener.
Distributism I'd never heard of before you mentioned it, so I have little to go on. Reading through the wikipedia article, it sounds vaguely similar to the kinds of guild socialism Bertrand Russell advocated. The idea of any particular family structure being "fundamental" is not one I like, and it probably speaks to the catholic origins of the doctrine, which also does not endear it to me. I have lots of sympathy for cooperative ventures, but I think the inherent instability of that way of operating a business makes it more of a tool for specific cases than a general model for the organization of an economy.
Incidentally, it also sounds like the opposite of the "third way" that I was talking about.
-Jester
I'm not talking about the impossiblity of any way but rightism and leftism, and to the extent that this is "damn foolishness", you're certainly not arguing against any position I hold. I'm taking about THE third way, the managerialist, wishy-washy creed of Clinton, Blair, and their ilk. They just take the existing political right and the political left, extract bits from both, make weak tea out of it, and sell it to the people with a hearty dose of artificial sweetener.
Distributism I'd never heard of before you mentioned it, so I have little to go on. Reading through the wikipedia article, it sounds vaguely similar to the kinds of guild socialism Bertrand Russell advocated. The idea of any particular family structure being "fundamental" is not one I like, and it probably speaks to the catholic origins of the doctrine, which also does not endear it to me. I have lots of sympathy for cooperative ventures, but I think the inherent instability of that way of operating a business makes it more of a tool for specific cases than a general model for the organization of an economy.
Incidentally, it also sounds like the opposite of the "third way" that I was talking about.
-Jester