On January 12, 2014, Norman Kurland, President of the Center for Economic and Social Justice (www.cesj.org) writes:
I personally find it a waste of time to continue the search for a single word or “-ism” to describe the Just Third Way. The very fact that we began using “the Just Third Way” was to distinguish it from all other uses of the term “third way” by inserting the adjective “Just.” Our truly radical paradigm is fully prepared to debate anyone on the subject of “Justice”. “Economic Justice”, or “Social Justice”, as CESJ has defined those terms, are essential for teaching basic principles for restructuring the global economic order, or the simple logic of the Kelsonian binary theory of economics, or our proposed Capital Homestead Act. The Kelso-Adler triad of inter-dependent “design science” principles may not yet be taught within academia, but they must be followed in the restructuring of all existing monetary, tax, banking, finance, labor and inheritance laws and all other economic institutions to achieve full and equal access to future ownership opportunities for every citizen without taking away fundamental property rights from current owners over their existing assets.
The fact that we use the term “the Just Third Way” is sufficient for most of the world to come to realize that the other two broadly acknowledged “ways or paradigms of political economy” describe policies for dealing with how wealth is produced and distributed for human consumption can fit under two other sweeping categories.
One category can be articulated by principles that fit the label of “Capitalism” (using some form of monopolistic market system owned mainly by a tiny ownership elite to shape the processes of production and distribution of economic goods and services). Monopoly Capitalism concentrates economic power in the hands of those who control money and other activities within “the economic system”, leading inevitably to corruption of political power.
The second category can be called “Collectivism”, “Socialism” or “Communism” (describing systems in which the State or some abstract “collective social tool”, not all flesh-and-blood human persons, owns and controls centrally how wealth is produced and distributed.
“Collectivism” in any form generally concentrates economic power to an even higher degree than Monopoly Capitalism, with lower levels of production, and even higher degrees of dehumanization and corruption than Monopoly Capitalism. The world today is ripe for the Just Third Way, which is a vastly superior morally-based economic paradigm for promoting global Peace, Prosperity and Freedom for all.
Our target should therefore be “the system”, not the tiny fraction who control today’s unjust global economic systems. The system was created not by God. It was created by people. It can only be changed by people . . . when the people wake up. The super-rich and their political “partners” cannot stop the people from demanding, organizing and surfacing new leaders, armed with the superior power of an “idea whose time has come.”
Support the Agenda of The Just Third Way Movement at http://foreconomicjustice.org/?p=5797, Monetary Justice at http://capitalhomestead.org/page/monetary-justice, the Capital Homestead Act at http://www.cesj.org/homestead/index.htm and http://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm. See the full Act at http://cesj.org/homestead/strategies/national/cha-full.pdf.
