clericalreaction:

We consider the Church to be the Mystical Body of Christ- actually founded by him, led by his apostles, and guided by the Holy Ghost. It therefore stands to reason that the Church is the ideal society, and thus the model for every other type of society.

And so we Catholics in the modern age must ask… is the Church democratic or meritocratic? Egalitarian or hierarchical? Gender-neutral or assigning specific roles to each gender? Libertarian or authoritarian? Why would we, then, turn over our country to a secular government whose assumptions and methods run completely contrary to the structure and nature of Christ’s Church?

Which system served to turn back Islamic invasion, guide the formation of thousands of saints, and produce some of the greatest works of beauty in history… the Democratic system or the Catholic system of monarchs and nobles under the guidance of Church leadership?

If this latter system were wrong, it would mean that the Church was wrong from the time of Constantine until the French Revolution– wrong for crowning monarchs and in many cases allowing those monarchs to appoint bishops (investiture), wrong for rallying kings to defend Christendom from Islamic invasion, wrong for using the territorial gains of monarchs as a means to evangelize new souls. If we believe that our Church was wrong in these things, are we not then de facto Protestants?

While there were certainly many bad monarchs and nobles in Western history, such badness often manifested only once they had rebelled against the authority of the Church, and had thus diminished the legitimacy of their authority. In proper harmony with ecclesial oversight, pre-revolutionary forms of government generally maintained order, peace, and prosperity. Wars between monarchs and nobles only escalated once Protestantism “liberated” them from the mitigating influence of the Church.

Count the number of kings, queens, princes, princesses, and nobles who have been canonized as saints. Now count the number of democratically elected leaders thus honored. Know the tree by its fruits.

Human beings are designed to live in communities made up of patriarchal families under the leadership of elders and men of merit. This fact of natural law is perfected when placed under the guidance of the Church.

The hope that good will come from the rule of the majority depends on the anti-Christian notion of Masonic enlightenment-era philosophers that men are pure, innocent, and wise enough to deduce our own good and live by it on their own. Our belief in concupiscence resulting from Original Sin suggests the very opposite. Secular democracy is the pinnacle of moral relativism in that it equates truth and goodness with the opinion of the majority.

We only see democracy at work twice in the Bible- once when the Israelites in the desert chose to worship a golden calf and once when the crowds in Pilate’s courtyard shouted for Barabbas to be freed. If we want law and order, peace and prosperity in our nations, then our system of government must reflect the structure and history of the Church- patriarchal and non-democratic, rooted in uncompromising faith and tradition.

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infanteriesauvage:

infanteriesauvage:

Infernal.

the-light-of-truth-world:

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guerrillatech:

Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.

Only rich people would think this was a good idea.

Learn your history, people!

We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.

I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.

Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.

#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever

We even have old songs about how this is a bad idea

You know how shitty it is that your health care insurance is directly tied to your job? Imagine if your housing worked the same way. Your husband or wife dies in a warehouse accident and you have 30 days to find a new place to live.

I live in the North of England, which, because Londoners are inherently bigots, is the middle of England. We had Mill towns: Some mill owner with Notions would build a Model town or a set of terraces and lure people in from the smallholdings to work in the mill.

And then they’d own you: You’d buy your bread at the company store at their price, you’d pay them rent, be fined for being late, for dropping your work, for missing quota… If you were super unlucky you’d have to use the company coin, which couldn’t be spent anywhere else. Very EA. You’d get a half day off on Sunday to got to church but you’d work 7 days a week. Your kids would get a few hours school, because some interfering politician had made a law saying children had to have an education, then they’d be expected to show for work.

They’d have to crawl under the looms, while they were in operation and scavenge thread and chaff. Meaning the foreman would occasionally haul you off the machine you were working on and tell you your kid just got scalped because the machine caught her hair and ate the top of her head. So sad, back to work, PS you’re being fined a penny for not being at your station.

The soot would get everywhere: We were still power washing it off inb teh 90s. Stuff that didn’t get it is still stained black. The dust from the fabric would give you Black Lung, and you’d retire at 50, having been deaf for 30 years, hacking up chunks of lung, and be dead by 55. Then the company would charge your family to bury you. And yes: they’d throw them out of the tiny house that shared a toilet with 20 other families.

Oh yes: The shop floor was so loud it’d deafen the workers, and they’d all be lip reading and using ad-hoc local sign language to talk. You know that running joke about OSHA being written in blood? Yeah. It was.

So here’s the interesting part. You know who dug us out of this corporate hell?

Quakers.

They took offense at all of this and started showing up, running Co-Op shops. They did the same as the Corporations: Everyting you had to buy, or wanted, was at the Co-Op. Houses (One of the biggest mortgage lenders was a Co-operative bank until Capitalism happened to it), food, clothes, funerals, furniture and banking. You put your wages in to the Co-Op and they’d let you buy everything on lay-away.

And that helped break the Mill’s monopoly.

And they also made… chocolate.

The Quakers came to the conclusion that Chocolate was morally correct: It cheered you up, was nourishing, and had no real drawbacks (Hey! Look, white people thinking - They never looked too hard into where cocao was coming from or what the conditions were like. If you’re feeling too happy and cheerful go look up the Belgian Congo some time.)

Anyway, you still find these weird little Yorkshire towns with these huge Mill factory buildings, sitting right next to a chocolate factory: Rowntrees (Bought by Nestlé), Mackintoshs, and Cadburys were all Quaker owned co-operative factories with on-site showers, and profit sharing.

Then Capitalism noticed and ate them, yum yum.

Anyway, point being is that there’s a working model for how to wreck a Corporation Town: You clone thier operation with a non-profit or Co-Op. They provide the same products and services that Corporations provide, but they put the money back into the pockets of the people, they circulate money instead of accumulating it.

I’m salty about this topic because I live here. I’ve worked in the Industrial Museum, met the survivors of the Mills (Old age takes no prisoners) and watched the literal colour of my home change from soot black to creamy brown stone, lived in the Mill terraces, watched Nestlé wipe out an entire company and squat in it’s corpse while slowly degrading the products to pump up the profits at the consumer’s expense and of course run slavery plantations.

Anyway: TL:DR Company towns are slavery and always have been.

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aurevoirmonty:

« Les gouvernements prétendent convaincre les peuples qu’ils sont ingouvernables, et, pour les rendre gouvernables, ils ne songent qu’à renforcer la puissance, déjà énorme, de l’Etat. Mais ce n’est pas l’Etat qu’ils renforcent, c’est l’administration, qui deviendra bientôt cette équipe de techniciens tout puissants, incontrôlables, irresponsables, instrument nécessaire de la prochaine, de la très prochaine dictature universelle . »

Georges Bernanos

aurevoirmonty:

Les liens de Navalny avec la CIA remontent au moins à 2005. Les documents diplomatiques révélés par Wikileaks indiquent que dès cette année-là son organisation de jeunesses, Alternative Démocratique!, était financée par la National Endowment for Democracy, une vitrine de la CIA bien connue.

aurevoirmonty:

« L’ensemble des « mass média », publicité et presse, est une sorte de gigantesque forêt vierge du mensonge et de l’imposture qui étend ses lianes inextricables au-dessus de l’humanité tout entière et qui nous empêche de recevoir la plus petite parcelle de vrai soleil et de vraie lumière. »

Sparte et les sudistes — Maurice Bardèche.

boopsloop656:

The absolute state of evangelicals

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aurevoirmonty:

“Les éduqués supérieurs forment aujourd’hui une caste à part, qui ignore le peuple : aussi le travail des politiciens est-il désormais de tromper le peuple, pour lui faire accepter des politiques contraires à ses intérêts ; le régime des pays occidentaux ne peut plus être appelé une démocratie, nous sommes en oligarchie, et la guerre en cours n’est pas celle des démocraties contre les régimes autoritaires, mais celle de l’oligarchie libérale contre la démocratie autoritaire.”

Rosa Llorens, Legrandsoir.info (2024)

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aurevoirmonty:

“Là où il n’y a pas de patrie, les mercenaires ou l’étranger deviennent les maîtres.”

Julien Freund, Qu’est-ce que la politique ? (1967)

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aurevoirmonty:

« Notre pays crève pour deux raisons : il a renié la religion qui le soudait et il a coupé ses racines avec les paysans dont il était issu. »

Raymond Delatouche, Le paysan révolté.