{"id":2008,"date":"2012-04-11T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:54:05","slug":"tolkien-christian-anarchist-and-distributist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien: Christian Anarchist and Distributist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2012\/04\/10\/the-once-and-future-blogger-the-department-of-conan-studies-the-anarchism-of-fools-book-buying-recommendations-and-the-ultimate-excuse\/\">Patrick&#8217;s post at Popehat<\/a>, and his link to <a href=\"http:\/\/flag.blackened.net\/liberty\/moorcock.html\">an essay<\/a> in which old school &#8220;Swords and Sorcery&#8221; author Michael Moorcock, who appears to both share my political \/ economic beliefs and be a total douchebag, compared Tolkien to Adolf Hitler, prompted me by way of a little Googling to remind myself that Tolkien also shared my political \/ economic beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;distributist&#8221; is basically a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1932\">leftist<\/a>. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staustinreview.com\/uploads\/issues\/Jan_Feb_2010_Akers.pdf\">this essay<\/a> arguing that Tolkien included in LOTR distributist solutions to problems associated with modernity.) A leftist is not a &#8220;socialist,&#8221; at least not as that word was understood by Tolkien (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2012\/04\/10\/the-once-and-future-blogger-the-department-of-conan-studies-the-anarchism-of-fools-book-buying-recommendations-and-the-ultimate-excuse\/#comment-826587\">my quibble<\/a> with Patrick over the meaning of the word &#8220;socialist&#8221; might have been better directed at his presumed interpretation of Moorcock&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;left&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/ayjw.org\/articles.php?id=695058\">who wrote<\/a> in a letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am not a &#8220;socialist&#8221; in any sense \u2013 being averse to &#8220;planning&#8221; (as must be plain) most of all because the &#8220;planners,&#8221; when they acquire power, become so bad\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ayjw.org\/articles.php?id=695058\">He also wrote<\/a>, in a letter to his son Christopher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick&#8217;s post at Popehat, and his link to an essay in which old school &#8220;Swords and Sorcery&#8221; author Michael Moorcock, who appears to both share my political \/ economic beliefs and be a total douchebag, compared Tolkien to Adolf Hitler, prompted me by way of a little Googling to remind myself that Tolkien also shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}