Marcel De Corte was a 20th century Belgian philosopher whose thought had considerable kinship with distributism. He championed an organic civilization rooted in the concrete and recognized the totalizing tendencies in modern systems of thought, both socialist and capitalist. Recently Arouca Press in Waterloo, Ontario has published translations of two of De Corte’s books, Intelligence … More Marcel De Corte
Are you wondering what you can give this Christmas? I recommend Thomas Storck’s latest book, The Prosperity Gospel published by TAN Books. In it, he lays out the story of its subtitle: “How greed and bad philosophy distorted Christ’s teaching.” While this book mainly addresses this in the United States, it also applies to much … More The Prosperity Gospel
by Thomas Storck Although there are still quite a number of people clinging to the idea that the world is afflicted by a crisis of overpopulation, those who are aware of the statistics know better. In fact, a demographic collapse seems much more likely than a crisis of too many people. Keeping in mind the … More Buildings, Babies, and Changing Our Thinking
by Thomas Storck Max Weber’s 1904 book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has given rise over the last century and more to robust discussion about the spirit of capitalism. Is there such a thing as the spirit of capitalism and if so, what exactly is it, and how is that different from … More CAPITALISM: the Concept and the Reality
One of the criticisms that have been made about the distributist movement is that we make false characterizations about capitalism. We take selective examples of abusive behavior taking place within capitalism and use them to criticize capitalism as a whole. We use terms like calling average employees the proletariat and “wage slaves” to reflect how … More Capitalism Eating Itself
by Thomas Storck Capitalism and communism are equally representative forms of this tendency of the world today not only to ignore Christianity, but to supplant it. To speak more precisely, the civilization of capitalism, as it was developed during the nineteenth century through the application to industry of the discoveries of experimental science, has … More Real and Ideal in Catholic Social Doctrine
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