I think the main point is just plain crony capitalism.
When Government (like ours) becomes monster sized - and corporations become enmeshed with it. This kills a free market.
I used to defend big corporations, until I worked with a few and realized they were almost purely socialist organizations.
Also, with neocon globalism, they have no loyalty to the United States.
Thank you for all of these comments. I new that this article would cause a big discussion and that is precisely what I wanted.
This article that I wrote is a first series of articles that I am planning on writing on the topic of Distributism. Before I can address Distributism I think we need to see whether capitalism is in fact the most ideal form of government or whether there are certain inherent problems within it that can be objectively criticized.
I am not an enemy of capitalism per se but most specifically unfettered capitalism or laissez faire capitalism. I believe that we should have free markets, but I think that a laissez faire form of capitalism or “unrestrained capitalism” does not lead to that.
I believe that bigness is a bad thing whether in government or in business and for that reason I tend to look down on both crony capitalism, as well as corporatism and even events such as the Industrial Revolution. I believe that Distributism is one of the most practical economic systems. I will write about Distributism later, but I think that I should point out that it is based on certain pillars which actually lead to a truly free market in my humble opinion.
Distributism is first based on the family and sees the family as the organic unit of society. This means that if any economic event or action will hurt the family in anyway, then it is better that such event does not occur. This form of economic system is thus both in contrast to individualism as well as to collectivism, since they both tend to take place of the family.
Distributism is also based on the fact that property rights are inherently a good think and that humans should be allowed and have the resources to acquire them. For this reason Distributism is based on the wide spreading of property rights. One of the problems with capitalism is that it can lead to a small number of “capitalists” who own the means of production “private property”. Socialism which was a reaction against capitalism by certain individuals didn’t fixed this problem, but only switched it to somewhere else. Socialism ended up with the State limiting property rights as well. Distributism on the other hand believes that individuals should be encouraged to have property rights by the use of small business and the ability to possess their own capital.
Distributism is lastly based on decentralization. Distributism basis itself on the need for subsidiarity and localism which means that those things which can be solved more efficiently at the local level, should be solved at such level. This economic system states that local commerce as well as smaller companies which are based on the local community are generally better.