tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379162432703596247.post2888192652828467343..comments2023-08-19T04:49:33.405-05:00Comments on Confiteri: A Real Polis?Walt Garlingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06960981300770685320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379162432703596247.post-61509824447741104372012-01-06T11:50:32.097-06:002012-01-06T11:50:32.097-06:00The War to Prevent Southern Independence destroyed...The War to Prevent Southern Independence destroyed two agrarian institutions: that of the yeoman farmer and that of the bondsman.Most members of both of these groups attempted to avoid wage slavery by opting for tenant farming or sharecropping, imperfect as these options were. In the end, the War, Reconstruction and the advent of Modernity into the South meant ultimate failure; and the agrarian option slowly but inexorably succumb to wage slavery, with its attendant rootlessness and alienation, creating an ever waxing mass to be collectivized as "citizens" of the emerging Hobbesian state.<br /><br />Marx himself, Marx who actually has a "conservative" side, noted that the corporation is the stalking horse for the state, for Marx, the socialist state; for the corporation gives the illusion of legal ownership to the shareholders while effective ownership lies with the boards and the CEO's. The same is true of the state. Those called "citizens" are said to be the owners of the state or the state itself while effective ownership lies with the political parties, the bureaucratic agents and the elites who manipulate them. This is well outlined in Who Owns America, the great sequel to I'll Take My Stand. In fact, in the introduction to I'll Take My Stand, it is made clear that Bolshevism will not come to America through the communism but through the managerial class.<br /><br />The danger of the abstract Hobbesian state, the danger of Marxism in its various forms and the danger of corporations was clearly seen by such Southern writers as Robert Dabney, William Gilmore Simms, Benjamin Palmer and John Girardeau.<br /><br />One forgets that the Hobbesian state itself is an abstract corporation and the lesser corporations are, in fact, not private but are creatures of the state. It is sad to write that even our Christian Churches have become 501C3's, i.e. not-for-profit corporations, and have seemingly abandoned their first love and only true reality: the Corpus Christi.<br /><br />We would do well to return to some of the fundamental teachings of the Church such as the Christian Just War Theory and, in the case of the topic of this thread, to subsidiarity, fundamental to understanding the Trinity, fundamental to understanding the Body of Christ and fundamental to understanding the various commonwealths and their interactions which make up the created order.Robert M. Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767188773037350921noreply@blogger.com