Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston of Attack the System for a written interview.
Topics include:
Keith’s interest in alternative economics that opposes both capitalism and socialism such as distributism
Why third way economics theories have limited influence but a large potential audience
A Traditionalist critique of Capitalism
Chesterton and Belloc’s views on Nationalism, Eugenics, and Imperialism
How Marxist viewed Distributism as a Petit Bourgeois movement
The Distributist critique of the welfare state versus the modern conservative view towards poverty
Taxation policies such as a Negative Income Tax and Asset Tax
Robert Stark interviews Greg Johnson on wealth redistribution and related topics:
Libertarian and the Tea Party as attempts to channel white political and economic anxieties into free market policies
How the threat of the underclass should not distract middle class whites from the threat of the overclass, which is shipping their jobs overseas and importing non-white workers
Why the Right desperately needs to deconstruct free market economic orthodoxy
Why it is a good idea to cap incomes
Populism as a moral principle
Why classical republicanism require a strong middle class
Why maintaining the middle class requires junking free market orthodoxy
Why redistributing wealth as a normal day-to-day policy is a sign of social imbalance
Why wealth redistribution does not need to be part of an egalitarian, socialist policy
Why a single massive redistribution of wealth after a revolution would be desirable
How to recapitalize and reindustrialize America
Why populism requires meritocracy
Why meritocracy requires a way to ensure downward as well as upward mobility
Why political and intellectual independence require economic independence
The Koch brothers
Distributism: why we want private property broadly distributed; why we want more small capitalists and fewer big ones
The craziness of the real estate market
Why mortgage interest deductibility is a racket that creates higher house prices and benefits banks
Why it is a good idea to limit the number of houses people can own
The prospects of breaking the ruling coaltion of plutocrats, public employee unions, and the underclass
The destruction of the white middle class in California and the creation of a Third World style plantation economy
Why the antebellum South was a form of capitalism not an aristocratic or feudal society