tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post8990297979022775535..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: Auto BailoutJohn Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-48269907033661438882008-11-19T06:37:00.000-06:002008-11-19T06:37:00.000-06:00MS Wheeler:Who owns the tools?Skilled trades worke...MS Wheeler:<BR/><BR/>Who owns the tools?<BR/><BR/>Skilled trades workers own many of their tools in the sense that they buy them. Engineers to Production workers use tools that the corps buy out of the workers' productivity. <BR/><BR/>If you check the Distributist farms run by the Catholic Worker houses you will see that they are worker owned and operated as cooperatives. <BR/><BR/>As is Mondragon. <BR/><BR/>Is this Communism? No. It is the antithesis of Communism.<BR/><BR/>- Tom LaneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-40033124440804334072008-11-18T21:47:00.000-06:002008-11-18T21:47:00.000-06:00Now, I worked as a farm laborer. What part of the ...Now, I worked as a farm laborer. What part of the farm do I own? I worked cutting hay---by hand. How can I own the means of production? I own hay? If I milked cows, what part of the barn or milk do I own?<BR/><BR/>Tell me how much Distributism is directed to farm labor? <BR/><BR/>Are you serious? So as a laborer on a farm, even though the farmer is poor, I get to own part of the farm as well?W.LindsayWheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06236577164127792348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-35285100046788410402008-11-18T11:25:00.000-06:002008-11-18T11:25:00.000-06:00Are you a socialist? a Communist? because reading ...<I>Are you a socialist? a Communist? because reading this post sure does sound like it.</I><BR/><BR/>Dear Mr. Wheeler,<BR/><BR/>I will attempt to reply to you later this evening, however, I would suggest you listen to the talk we have by Archbishop Sheen if you scroll down the home page.<BR/><BR/>The Church's position is that a worker should be given more than a wage (and if he received a wage, it should be just), not only in the form of stock, but in the form of co-ownership, if at all possible.<BR/><BR/>Labour, an integral part of production (as capital depends on labor to produce), works best when it owns the means of production.<BR/><BR/>Socialism and Communism advocates public ownership or collective ownership.Richard Alemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-59126546541518322252008-11-18T11:01:00.000-06:002008-11-18T11:01:00.000-06:00Time to read some books on Distributism Ms. Wheele...Time to read some books on Distributism Ms. Wheeler.Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11313026392511626084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-84771126762177414112008-11-18T09:55:00.000-06:002008-11-18T09:55:00.000-06:002. Return production to the folks who own the tool...<I>2. Return production to the folks who own the tools.</I><BR/><BR/>Who owns what tools? I thought the company owns the tools. I don't see factory workers carrying tools into factories.<BR/><BR/>Are you a socialist? a Communist? because reading this post sure does sound like it.W.LindsayWheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06236577164127792348noreply@blogger.com