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I recently wrote an article against a fraudulent and detestable book by a Jewish author. The book itself had almost nothing to do with Hebraism, being an atrocious falsification of the facts of European political history, and especially of the Socialist movement and of that larger and more vague current of opinion that can be defined as Progressive or Modernist. And the fact that I compared it to one of the most loathsome pieces of Jew-bashing in history should indicate to anyone with a brain (that, alas, excludes most Jew-bashers) that I consider BOTH to be the lowest kind of Index-worthy political pornography, appealing to the lowest human passions, in revolt against reason and decency, and unworthy of serious debate. I condemn one detestable book by one Jewish author exactly as I condemn the whole field of Jew-bashing.

(That does not exclude that some anti-semites have had interesting and even worthwhile things to say. Apart from GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who both took the field against Nazi Jew-bashing as soon as they heard of it, one could think of E.Michael Jones. But cases such as these are rare, and barely worth mentioning.)

Let it therefore be quite clear that anyone who tries to pervert my views in the service of a Jew-bashing agenda will find himself deleted and banned. Jew-bashers and other hatemongers are not welcome here. And yes, I have a specific person in mind; one, alas, who claims to be a Christian minister.

Date: 2008-03-31 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com
Not that I know of. From what I can see, Chesterton envisaged a property broken up into small individual units. The problem is that that is not really feasible with, for instance, a mining company or a large manufacturer. Big business, much though we may dislike it, is part of the landscape. Its power is immense and fundamentally irresponsible, so some way of coping with it is necessary.

(The enormous success of the League of Cooperatives also has to do with peculiar historical features that are not easily transferred outside its native Italian regions, and which would take too long to detail here.)

Date: 2008-04-01 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marielapin.livejournal.com
Well I have just barely started reading up on distributivism on the ChesterBelloc Mandate Blog:

http://distributist.blogspot.com/2007/08/introduction-to-distributism.html

and they claim that the Mondragón Cooperative works under distributivistic principles and it is the 7th largest company in Spain. If that is not big business, I don't know what is. I can't really give any more information, as I just started reading about this literally two nights ago, but your mentioning the co-operatives made me wonder if you were referring to something like distributivism, which seems to be a middle ground between capitalism and socialism.

Date: 2008-04-01 04:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com
Sounds good to me. I evidently was wrong, so I apologize.

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