We believe that the real enemies of human progress, freedom and justice are not primarily bad people, but bad ideas. As a result of defective ideas:

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The inalienable human right of access to the means of acquiring private property, especially within the modern corporation, has been shackled politically. This seriously hampers investment and productivity, increases the centralized power of the State, and erodes individual self-determination.

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Short-term, bottom-line expedients are crowding out long-range growth and economic justice.

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Primary reliance on the system of wages and welfare without ownership promotes a needless and increasingly destructive conflict between workers and owners.

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The job training system degrades the non-owning worker to the status of a tool, rather than educating him to be a master of the machine.

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The capital credit system denies workers equal opportunity of access to future capital ownership and profits.

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Socialism and other forms of collectivism, as well as monopolistic capitalism, have failed to produce peace with justice for humanity.

 

Conversely, good ideas are the catalyst to economic growth and human development.

 

Our message is that neither socialism nor capitalism provides a sufficiently moral alternative for building true economic justice for every human being. We believe there is a "third way."

 

The solution to economic injustice is not to make enemies out of the owners but, by lifting barriers, to make owners out of the non-owners. Economic justice demands real economic democracy-- empowering each person with the means and opportunity to acquire and enjoy the full rights, rewards and responsibilities of productive capital ownership.

 

The goal of CESJ is to get the message of economic justice into the marketplace of ideas.