An economy for persons …

… Belloc’s Humane Defense of Personhood and Property.

[The] role of property was once a central principle of all Catholic social teaching with its ambitious language of “third ways” and “integral humanism.”  Since the mid-twentieth century, unhappily, the Church has more sought to christen that unity of socialism and servility called the modern welfare state. It would do well to recover the more pugnacious revolutionist spirit of Belloc.