BEYOND CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM

Edited by Tobias J. Lanz, Ph.D. A New Statement of an Old Idea, A 21st Century Apologia for Social and Economic Sanity by 12 Catholics, edited by author Tobias J. Lanz, Ph.D. on the idea of a society of property owning families tilling their own mortagage-free land, or working their own trade protected by a guild unting them with other owner-operated crafts and tradesmen. Tirelessly defended by the true Catholic Church and by those of similar vision, such as Thomas Jefferson and the Southern Agrarians in the U.S. – this political and social idea remains the only real alternative to the tyranny of today’s “isms” whether from the state-sponsored collectivism of the Left or the corporate concentration of wealth resulting from the idolatry of an unlimited “free market” of the Right. In 1926 Chesterton, Belloc and others founded, in England, the Distributist movement, with the aim of restoring liberty to Englishmen by freeing them from wage slavery and giving them ownership of real, productive property.