O vídeo supra é uma excelente síntese do espírito distributista: pequena/média propriedade privada + livre iniciativa individual genuína = liberdade autêntica.
23 de dezembro de 2012
Agricultura urbana auto-suficiente
O vídeo supra é uma excelente síntese do espírito distributista: pequena/média propriedade privada + livre iniciativa individual genuína = liberdade autêntica.
24 de maio de 2012
De ricos, riquezas y amor al prójimo
Del amor al prójimo.
7 de maio de 2012
Uma excelente introdução ao distributismo
10 de abril de 2012
Lorax
1 de abril de 2012
Leitura recomendada
7 de março de 2012
4 de março de 2012
Da aplicação do distributismo nas sociedades contemporâneas
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Hilaire Belloc y G.K. Chesterton consideraron siempre que el capitalismo era la gran plaga que impedía la floración de una sociedad auténticamente cristiana, por haber introducido la competencia en las relaciones conyugales, desarraigado al hombre de su tierra y nublado las virtudes de nuestros mayores, convirtiendo a los seres humanos en máquinas al servicio de la producción. «El capitalismo -escribiría Belloc- constituye una calamidad no porque defienda el derecho legal a la propiedad, sino porque representa, por su propia naturaleza, el empleo de ese derecho legal para beneficio de unos pocos privilegiados contra un número mucho mayor de hombres que, aunque libres y ciudadanos en igualdad de condiciones, carecen de toda base económica propia».
En la grandiosa encíclica Rerum novarum (1891), de León XIII, en la que se condenan las condiciones oprobiosas, lindantes con la esclavitud, en las que vivía una muchedumbre infinita de proletarios, hallarían Chesterton y Belloc el aliento para impulsar, en compañía de Arthur Penty y el padre Vincent McNabb, un nueva doctrina económica, alternativa al capitalismo y al socialismo, cuyo fin último es promover el Reinado Social de Cristo.
El distributismo se funda en las instituciones de la familia y la propiedad, pilares básicos de un recto orden de la sociedad humana; no cualquier familia, desde luego, sino la familia católica comprometida en la procreación y fortalecida por vínculos solidarios indestructibles. Tampoco cualquier propiedad, y mucho menos la propiedad concentrada del capitalismo, sino una propiedad equitativamente distribuida que permita a cada familia ser dueña de su hogar y de sus medios de producción. El trabajo, de este modo, deja de ser alienante y se convierte en un fin en sí mismo; y el trabajador, al ser también propietario, recupera el amor por la obra bien hecha, y vuelve a mirar a Dios, al principio de cada jornada, con gratitud y sentido de lo sagrado, santificando de veras sus quehaceres cotidianos.
Por supuesto, la sociedad distributista preconizada por Chesterton y sus amigos se rige por el principio de subsidiariedad y por la virtud teologal de la caridad, que antepone el bien común al lucro personal. Se trataría de lograr que cada familia cuente con los medios necesarios para su subsistencia, bien mediante la producción propia, bien mediante el comercio con otras familias o comunidades de familias, con las que se asociará para realizar obras públicas y garantizar la educación cristiana y el aprendizaje de los oficios para sus hijos.
Los gremios vuelven a ser, en la sociedad distributista, elemento fundamental en la organización del trabajo.
El distributismo no postula una sociedad de individuos iguales, empachados de una libertad que acaba destruyendo los vínculos comunitarios, sino una sociedad verdaderamente fraterna, regida por los principios de dignidad y jerarquía, en la que mucho más que el bienestar importa el bien-ser.
Algunos la juzgarán una sociedad utópica; yo la juzgo perfectamente realizable, en un tiempo como el presente, en que el capitalismo financiero y el llamado cínicamente Estado social de Derecho se tambalean, heridos de muerte. Sólo hacen falta católicos radicales e intrépidos, con poco que perder (el soborno del mundo) y mucho que ganar (la vida eterna).
Juan Manuel de Prada
8 de janeiro de 2012
O Pingo-Doce e o Distributismo
5 de dezembro de 2011
Liberdade e Mercado
Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More, John C. Médaille
1 de julho de 2011
La Libertad del Polvo
19 de junho de 2011
A Restauração da Propriedade Privada
Let it be remembered that this aim of ours for the restoration of private property among a determining number of the community, the distribution of property among the masses of citizens who should thus be made free, does not contradict state ownership of certain functions. What it contradicts is the false doctrine of general or preponderant state ownership, or what is worst of all universal State ownership. The State exists for the family and the individual; not these for the State.In many European countries where highly divided property is the rule, railways are State owned, and in all without exception, the Post Office.There is no hard and fast line, but the general principle is clear enough. Any free and well ordered state includes a proportion of State ownership which is based upon private ownership in the hands of as many citizens and families as possible at any rate, of so many as to make the principle determining character of society. Such ownership may be co-operative in the form of the Guild where large units are necessary or as in the case of nearly all agriculture and a great deal of industry as well, owned in small units by craftsmen.The function of distribution should also follow the same lines. Where there must be concentration in a large unit, that unit should be organized as a Guild; but in the vast majority of cases a small unit of distribution—the small store—is sufficient.
10 de junho de 2011
25 de abril de 2011
Compreender as transformações no Status Quo - Distributismo e Trabalho Assalariado
15 de abril de 2011
Distributismo na Blogosfera
14 de abril de 2011
Apresentação de um camarada
10 de abril de 2011
A Ira do Assalariado
So it has been with the wage-worker. So long as most citizens owned land and instruments and house-room, and the rest, then it was a natural contract for one man to take wages from another. The wage worker might himself be an owner, adding to his income for the moment by a particular bit of work; or if he saved on his wages he could become an owner. The number of wage-workers working for one particular man was small. The relations between the citizen who paid the wage and the citizen who earned it was personal and human. But when, under the action of competition and the use of expensive and centralized machines, and rapid communication, you had thousands and thousands of men working at a wage under one paymaster or corporation, things were utterly changed—and that is where we stand today. Our industrial society has become divided into a very large body which lives wholly, or almost wholly, on wages, that is on food, clothing, and housing doled out to it at short intervals by a much smaller number of paymasters, who control capital: that is, stores and reserves of land, housing, clothing and food.
The human relation has disappeared, you have the naked contrast between an employing class exploiting a vastly larger employed class for profit. The interests of the two are directly hostile. The wage-worker is the enemy of the paymaster. It is the business of the paymaster to give the wage earner as little as possible, and to make him work as hard as possible for that little. It is the business of the wage-worker to work, and therefore to produce, as little as possible for as much as he can get out of the paymaster. The whole scheme of wealth production becomes irrational and topsy-turvy. The paymasters, who direct, do not aim at wealth production—which serves us all—but at their own profit. The wage-worker does not aim at wealth production by his work, but on the contrary, at working as little as possible for the largest pay.
Meanwhile, every sort of social abomination arises from this evil root. There is the spiritual abomination of what is called “Class Hatred.” The oppressed hating the oppressor. There is the corresponding spiritual abomination of contempt, injustice, and falsehood. The secure oppressor despises the wage-earner, does him the injustice of using his labor without thought if the wage-earner’s advantage or of the community, and he tells a falsehood that was a truth at the beginning of the affair but is now a lie: he says that all this is based on free contract and is therefore rightly enforced by the courts of law and the armed services of the community.
9 de abril de 2011
Trabalho como Factor de Civilização
7 de abril de 2011
Distributismo e Fascismo
For the authoritarian nationalist conception of the State represents something essentially new. In it the French Revolution is superseded. (...) We have modernized and ennobled the concept of democracy. With us it means definitely the rule of the people, in accordance with its origin. We have given the principle of Socialism a new meaning. ... Never have we left anyone in doubt that National-Socialism is not for export. ... We do not aim at world domination, but we do intend to defend our country, and it is our new conceptions which give us the inexhaustible and ever-renewed strength to do so. ...
Las tres hipóstasis del egoísmo son: el individualismo, el nacionalismo, el colectivismo.
La trinidad democrática.Nicolás Gómes Dávila
