Thursday, May 29, 2008
Roger Scruton, The Journey Home, Part II
The Communist Manifesto makes one important observation about capitalism: that it has an inherent tendency to set human communities in motion, to detach people from the place and status into which they are born, rendering transitory what had been permanent, and replacing destiny with choice. The real lesson of Röpke’s humane economy is to establish practices that counteract the forces of social dissolution caused by the unlocated economy and that promote communities of attachment, loyalty, and charity. . . .
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