The original post of this site was a call to action, addressing the necrosis which can no longer be hidden by a sleek veneer and to lay out the trajectory by which a social revolution can progress. The purpose of this article is to clarify the ideological position of this movement relative to the one presently dominant within Western society, democratic liberalism, which has led us to this point of imminent collapse due to the multiple sustained crises which it has engendered. The primary culprits are the dual enshrinement of reason and the individual as supreme, dethroning faith and concern for the wellbeing of the collective social unit. Plato’s forms were discarded for Bacon’s empiricism which deeded that all which could be gathered via the senses was enough to direct us towards the Truth. However, this fallacy has only led us to a schizophrenic social conceptualization of what is true, for everyone’s personal experience is unique, with the latest development arising in the 20th century with sociolinguistics, the insane notion that the intended meaning behind words uttered is mutable following how the reader might choose to interpret them. The values which God set out for society to follow in the person of Jesus Christ have since morphed into a confused carnival hall of mirrors. The Enlightenment also argued, contrary to Christian social teaching, that the unbridled pursuit of individual happiness will lead to the greatest social good. What has since transpired has proven just the opposite, as corruption has settled into the heart of a society which allows for the ever increasing concentration of wealth while more and more are left on the fringes struggling for basic survival.
The social revolution of the Enlightenment opened the way for the development of the West’s present economic model, industrial capitalism, an aberration in the face of God’s teaching. All of His creation was now subject to commodification, its value reduced to what it could fetch in the market, even something as priceless as a man’s time. The exclusive focus became increasing the wealth of the owners of capital, even at the expense of people’s dignity. Fast forward to our post-industrial society, the average man has been stripped of all sovereignty, the means of production and generation of wealth shipped off to distant lands and increasingly limited to multinational conglomerates, with a government that has followed suit in its pattern of centralization and doesn’t even pretend to represent his interests. Man is not the only one exploited, with ecological dynamics deeply upset to the verge of near collapse. Industry has left landscapes barren and scarred with toxic waste, many adjacent to the neighborhoods of workers, beleaguering them and their children with chronic health issues. This too runs contrary to God’s tasking us with the stewardship of creation.
Therefore, the goal of this movement is to recover the power of the average person in the order of relations that God taught. To continue the work begun by intellectuals like G.K. Chesterton and put into practice by the Catholic Worker movement. That production should be controlled by cooperatives and small family farmers by which we can practice informed democratic decision making and have property to be independent. Government should be as decentralized as possible, with territory not determined by arbitrary lines but real ecological boundaries, so that representatives do not have the leeway to ignore their constituents. People should be afforded what they need not just to survive, but to thrive, as full members of a community made of children of God and coheirs to the eternal kingdom. We need to reeducate ourselves on how to move to the rhythm of creation. To foster a discipline of self denial to turn our efforts towards the fulfillment of the collective which we belong to. To bring to the heart of the common narrative the voices of those critics unafraid to speak out in defense of the Truth, which the Church has so carefully guarded over the course of millennia, and which should return to be the West’s guiding principles. It is this movement’s belief that society will come to best know the peace of God as one organically organized and made up largely of peasant farmers and artisans.