Discussion of distributism at WWWTW.

If politics is the art of the possible, then can a sustainable solution to many of the problems affecting fundamental goods be implemented? It seems no, so long as the oligarchy remains in power -- there can be no sustainability, no decentralization of power, no building up of local economies. Instead of claiming that a "distributist" solution is impracticable, we'd be better off informing others about peak oil, soil degradation, loss of freshwater, the evils of corporatism, and so on, and trying to convince others in the community to take a more active part in localization and the restoration of republicanism. Those who defend the current political economy are either ignorant of the ecological toll that it takes or thinks that these problems can be solved through "progress" and "free enterprise." Such blind faith in the system. For political goals to be achieved, there must be sufficient power to bring them about; libertarians and anarchists can maintain that the a powerless or absent state is the ideal, but power will be exercised somehow.