10-25-2011, 08:11 PM
It's classic right wing-ishness to conflate the Catholic social teachings around subsidiarity and distributism into excuses for dismantling government. That's not at all what they are when you look at the church's thinking.
They are meant to be a third way BETWEEN the extremes of communism and laissez-faire capitalism, acknowledging both as failures, and acknowledging that neither produces a fair distribution of resources nor a just society in general.
They are meant to be a third way BETWEEN the extremes of communism and laissez-faire capitalism, acknowledging both as failures, and acknowledging that neither produces a fair distribution of resources nor a just society in general.