In the last chapter of the book, Illich offers an apocalyptic view of industrial societies and the forced segregations that have been imposed on families and on people for the sake of efficiency. Is his a Marxian critique of capitalism or does he offer a third way that even supporters of the free market should give heed to?
Episode 65 - Creating community for a post-COVID 19 society now, with Charlie Diest
Episode 35 - Fr Brad Elliot O.P. : Why Do Christians Flirt with the Errors of Marxism and Democratic Socialism?
Episode 27 - Fr Brad Elliott O.P.: Is Distributism a Third Way or a Wrong Way?
Episode 13 - Private Property and Self-interest are in Harmony with the Common Good: Fr Brad Elliot O.P.
Episode 12 - Population Growth is Good for Mankind and the World
All the evidence shows us that that more new people there are in the world, the better the world is and the better it is for the rest of us. Fear and the hatred of mankind as the cause of it in the post-Christian West drive an irrational pessimism that creates greater evils and suffering than those they are seeking to remedy.