Most of what is happening in the world today is the best advertisement possible for the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism and the Economic Democracy Act. The problem is that those who think that they are world leaders (or even just ordinary leaders) aren’t really doing leading or much else that is constructive. What the world needs now is not just love, but a way of realistically implementing justice fulfilled and completed by love:
• Help Joe Walk Again for Economic Justice. Just a reminder, if you haven’t already done so, to visit the GoFundMe campaign and consider making a contribution and spreading word out among your social media networks. It’s off to a good start, but it’s still just a start.
• Outreach to China? It appears that President Biden’s primary effort in the struggle against climate change is the People’s Republic of China. Unfortunately, when attempting to do anything with a bully state like Xi’s China, you don’t want to start from a position of weakness — and right now Biden is viewed as very weak, indeed, as is the U.S. economy. If Biden tries to get anything with things the way they are, the best he will do is vague promises now, and complete contempt in the future. Just ask
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Pope Francis how much the Catholic Church got after giving away the farm. Ask the people of Hong Dong how well China keeps its word and its respect for fundamental human rights. Ask . . . well, you get the idea. If Biden wants anything from China, he has to argue from a position of strength, especially in two key areas: energy policy and the economy. In brief, there needs to be a shift away from fossil fuels and toward a viable mix of other energy sources to avoid dependence on a single one, and the Economic Democracy Act needs to be adopted as soon as possible. Anything less, and China will continue to laugh in Biden’s — the U.S.’s — face.
• Remember the Fifth of November. Today is Guy Fawkes Day. So why should anyone care about a failed — and possibly trumped up — plot to assassinate James I of England a few centuries ago? Because Fawkes has been taken as a symbol of resistance to oppressive control by government . . . which suggests that some people might have read C. Northcote Parkinson’s book, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (1977). Mere resistance, however, will do nothing except cause more repression. Resistance has to have a powerbase to be effective, and that means widespread capital ownership as proposed in the Economic Democracy Act.
• Hortense and Her Whos. In case you’ve been wondering how you might advance the Just Third Way by introducing it to legislators at any and all levels of government, we’ve made it easy for you, with the “Hortense Hears Three Whos“ initiative. Visit the explanatory website, and consider downloading the postcard to send to people in government. Don’t worry if you think they won’t be open to it, as the postcard is intended to get them to open their eyes.
• Economic Personalism Landing Page. A landing page for CESJ’s latest publication, Economic Personalism: Property, Power and Justice for Every Person, has been created and can be accessed by clicking on this link. Everyone is encouraged to visit the page and send the link out to their networks.
• Economic Personalism. When you purchase a copy of Economic Personalism: Property, Power and Justice for Every Person, be sure you post a review after you’ve read it. It is available on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble at the cover price of $10 per copy. You can also download the free copy in .pdf available from the CESJ website. If you’d like to order in bulk (i.e., ten or more copies) at the wholesale price, send an email to publications@cesj.org for details. CESJ members get a $2 rebate per copy on submission of proof of purchase. Wholesale case lots of 52 copies are available at $350, plus shipping (whole case lots ONLY). Prices are in U.S. dollars.
• Sensus Fidelium Videos, Update. CESJ’s series of videos for Sensus Fidelium are doing very well, with over 150,000 total views. The latest Sensus Fidelium video is “The Five Levers of Change.” The video is part of the series on the book, Economic Personalism. The latest completed series on “the Great Reset” can be found on the “Playlist” for the series. The previous series of sixteen videos on socialism is available by clicking on the link: “Socialism, Modernism, and the New Age,” along with some book reviews and other selected topics. For “interfaith” presentations to a Catholic audience they’ve proved to be popular, edging up to 150,000 views to date. They aren’t really “Just Third Way videos,” but they do incorporate a Just Third Way perspective. You can access the playlist for the entire series The point of the videos is to explain how socialism and socialist assumptions got such a stranglehold on the understanding of the role of the State and thus the interpretation of Catholic social teaching, and even the way non-Catholics and even non-Christians understand the roles of Church, State, and Family, and the human person’s place in society.
• Shop online and support CESJ’s work! Did you know that by making your purchases through the Amazon Smile program, Amazon will make a contribution to CESJ? Here’s how: First, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your Amazon account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon, you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using our secure server” button.) Once you have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice Arlington.” If you type anything else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift through. Once you’ve typed (or copied and pasted) “Center for Economic and Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• Blog Readership. We have had visitors from 32 different countries and 37 states and provinces in the United States and Canada to this blog over the past week. Most visitors are from the United States, Kenya, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The most popular postings this past week in descending order were “The Purpose of Production,” “The Un-Capitalist Manifesto,” “Subsidiarity and Personalism,” “News from the Network, Vol. 14, No. 43,” and “The Economic Democracy Act.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that we know about. If you have an accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next “issue.” Due to imprudent language on the part of some commentators, we removed temptation and disabled comments.
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