title: Beyond Capitalism & Socialism: A New Statement of an Old Ideal
author: Tobias J. Lanz
description: <div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">"A book to which I&#8217;ll be turning again and again."&#160; &#151;James G. Hanink, professor, department of philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles</P></div><br /><br /><div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">"The contributors . . . offer an alternate vision that promises the recovery of individual freedom, social health, and the humane tradition."&#160; &#151;Mark Malvasi, PhD, professor, department of history, Randolph-Macon College</P></div><br /><br /><div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">"This excellent anthology offers a genuine 'third way,' meeting the needs of individuals formed and shaped in families and communities, while achieving the common good."&#160; &#151;Joseph Pappin III, PhD, dean, University of South Carolina&#150;Lancaster</P></div><br /><br /><div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">"A valuable collection of essays. With insight, old principles are brought to bear on contemporary social inequities."&#160; &#151;Jude P. Dougherty, PhD, dean emeritus, school of philosophy, The Catholic University of America</P></div><br /><br /><div><div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">"The moral importance of the essays gathered together here lies in the vexing questions they are certain to cause thoughtful readers to ask."&#160; &#151;Cicero Bruce, PhD, professor of English, Southern Catholic College</P></div></div><br /><br /><div><div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">"This rich and provocative collection will acquaint a new generation of readers with the enduring wisdom of the Catholic tradition."&#160; &#151;Peter A. Huff, PhD, T. L. James Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Centenary College of Louisiana; author, <I>Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival: Trace of the Fugitive Gods</I></P></div></div><br /><br /><div><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">"This wonderful volume contains the provocative and well-argued writings of some of the finest distributist minds alive today."&#160; &#151;Andrew V. Abela, PhD, professor, department of business and economics, The Catholic University of America</P></div><br /><br /><div><div>"This collection of essays challenges the sterile idealism of the communist and the purposeless empiricism of the capitalist&#151;with both good humor and sound reasoning."&#160; &#151;John C. M&#233;daille, author, <I>The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace</I></div></div>
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  Political Ideals
  
  
  Chapter I: Political Ideals
  
  Chapter II: Capitalism and the Wage System
  
  Chapter III: Pitfalls in Socialism
  
  Chapter IV: Individual Liberty and Public Control
  
  
  Chapter V: National Independence and
  
  
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  # Political Ideals
  
  
  ### Bertrand Russell
  
  
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  * Chapter I: Political Ideals
  
  
  * Chapter II: Capitalism and the Wage System
  
  
  * Chapter III: Pitfalls in Socialism
  
  
  * Chapter IV: Individual Liberty and Public Control
  
  
  
  
  
  * Chapter V: National Independence and 
  
  
  Internationalism
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  ### Chapter I: Political Ideals
  
  
  In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and
  
  
  as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of
  
  
  hardships by the way. The times through which we are passing have
  
  
  afforded to many of us a confirma