#Distributism

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Help Pious Projects to distribute hygiene kits to vulnerable women in Gaza

Pious Project also working to distribute medical supply , food baskets, hot meals, water etc : link here

[disgruntledexplainer]

I love how Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum can pretty much be summed up as "Yes, socialism is awful (here are quite a few paragraphs detailing exactly why), but MAYBE if you started TREATING YOUR WORKERS RIGHT, people would STOP TRYING TO IMPLEMENT IT".

[pangur-and-grim]

I've been following Sulala Animal Rescue for a while, and they could really use donations if people have it in them? just the amount you'd spend on a coffee.

so many people in Gaza have had to leave pets behind to focus on their own survival, and it makes me weepy to see the Sulala crew taking them in.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Who’s gonna tell the diet fascist that Scandinavia doesn’t have like the best economy in the world because of a “Calvinist Protestant Work Ethic” and that it’s actually because they have a social democratic welfare system??? You know the most generous social welfare system, attempting to achieve equality across gender and class lines by providing extensive health care, education, housing, and child/elder care benefits to all citizens from the cradle to the grave? The one where child care is wildly available to ensure the long term wellbeing of both mother and child, and that the child is not in adulthood forced by poverty into criminal behavior or drug use? You know, the one with the lowest crime rates across Europe???

I mean like this sounds incredibly Christian, but it’s more Catholic than Calvinist. You know, Catholics? The ones who gave the most amazing social teaching? The ones who invented liberation theology? You know them???

[divinecomedyproductions]

“It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favor of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, that has encouraged for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.”-G.K. Chesterton

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[political-us]

[eternal-echoes]

“The following norms seem useful for such cooperation:

a) Developing nations should take great pains to seek as the object for progress to express and secure the total human fulfillment of their citizens. They should bear in mind that progress arises and grows above all out of the labor and genius of the nations themselves because it has to be based, not only on foreign aid, but especially on the full utilization of their own resources, and on the development of their own culture and traditions. Those who exert the greatest influence on others should be outstanding in this respect.

b) On the other hand, it is a very important duty of the advanced nations to help the developing nations in discharging their above-mentioned responsibilities. They should therefore gladly carry out on their own home front those spiritual and material readjustments that are required for the realization of this universal cooperation.

Consequently, in business dealings with weaker and poorer nations, they should be careful to respect their profit, for these countries need the income they receive on the sale of their homemade products to support themselves.

c) It is the role of the international community to coordinate and promote development, but in such a way that the resources earmarked for this purpose will be allocated as effectively as possible, and with complete equity. It is likewise this community's duty, with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity, so to regulate economic relations throughout the world that these will be carried out in accordance with the norms of justice.

Suitable organizations should be set up to foster and regulate international business affairs, particularly with the underdeveloped countries, and to compensate for losses resulting from an excessive inequality of power among the various nations. This type of organization, in unison with technical cultural and financial aid, should provide the help which developing nations need so that they can advantageously pursue their own economic advancement.

d) In many cases there is an urgent need to revamp economic and social structures. But one must guard against proposals of technical solutions that are untimely. This is particularly true of those solutions providing man with material conveniences, but nevertheless contrary to man's spiritual nature and advancement. For "not by bread alone does man live, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matt. 4:4). Every sector of the family of man carries within itself and in its best traditions some portion of the spiritual treasure entrusted by God to humanity, even though many may not be aware of the source from which it comes.”

-Gaudium et Spes, PASTORAL CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD

[lokwinske]

I wanna do more research on Christianity and its relation to economic philosophy/politics

[alana-k-asby]

This is why we need Distributism, not Capitalism or Socialism. The only way for people to get rewarded is for individuals and families to own the means of production.

[disgruntledexplainer]

boy, but i do love watching companies burn because of their own greed, callousness, disassociation from reality, and short-sighted decisions. It's delicious.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

In any case we clearly see, and on this there is general agreement, that some opportune remedy must be found quickly for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class: for the ancient workingmen's guilds were abolished in the last century, and no other protective organization took their place. Public institutions and the laws set aside the ancient religion. Hence, by degrees it has come to pass that working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition. The mischief has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned by the Church, is nevertheless, under a different guise, but with like injustice, still practiced by covetous and grasping men. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself. 

Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor

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[skwidtheoctopus]

This. Just… this.