One thing I should have included in the article is that in his 200 year old book which forms the basis of the American School, Raymond’s call for generational redistribution of property is clearly drawn from the Biblical Jubilee.
Let’s open up chapter 25 of Leviticus, the book of cultic observances inserted in the middle of the four narrative books of the Pentateuch, connecting these ancient narratives to what one scholar calls “a ritual present in which occasions and acts are cyclical or recurrent.” These rituals have nothing to do with individual salvation or morality: the purity which they safeguard is that of the community.
In Hebrew, the word for holy literally means “separate.” Without ritual, dissolution into the gnashing teeth and black gullets of pagan antiquity. Degeneration, fetishism, “whoring after foreign gods,” loss of their identity going back to Abraham. After all the dietary restrictions, purity codes, and sacrifice ordinances, Leviticus ends with the Jubilee:
“The land shall not be sold forever, for the land is mine.” (25:23) This premise underwrites the entire 25th chapter. All belongs to God, so there must be a limit to accumulation. Without which, it is implicit, private property would challenge God as an idol (the reign of commodity fetishism). And so every 50th year, about a generation by Old Testament standards:
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family
Land reform, debt forgiveness, freedom to slaves, relief to the poor, once a generation. To the Jewish people of antiquity this was a condition of God’s blessing. Hudson has revived the idea recently, and 200 years ago Daniel Raymond, the founder of the American School, endorsed the same.
One thing I should have included in the article is that in his 200 year old book which forms the basis of the American School, Raymond’s call for generational redistribution of property is clearly drawn from the Biblical Jubilee.
Let’s open up chapter 25 of Leviticus, the book of cultic observances inserted in the middle of the four narrative books of the Pentateuch, connecting these ancient narratives to what one scholar calls “a ritual present in which occasions and acts are cyclical or recurrent.” These rituals have nothing to do with individual salvation or morality: the purity which they safeguard is that of the community.
In Hebrew, the word for holy literally means “separate.” Without ritual, dissolution into the gnashing teeth and black gullets of pagan antiquity. Degeneration, fetishism, “whoring after foreign gods,” loss of their identity going back to Abraham. After all the dietary restrictions, purity codes, and sacrifice ordinances, Leviticus ends with the Jubilee:
“The land shall not be sold forever, for the land is mine.” (25:23) This premise underwrites the entire 25th chapter. All belongs to God, so there must be a limit to accumulation. Without which, it is implicit, private property would challenge God as an idol (the reign of commodity fetishism). And so every 50th year, about a generation by Old Testament standards:
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family
Land reform, debt forgiveness, freedom to slaves, relief to the poor, once a generation. To the Jewish people of antiquity this was a condition of God’s blessing. Hudson has revived the idea recently, and 200 years ago Daniel Raymond, the founder of the American School, endorsed the same.
https://fiatiustitia.substack.com/p/national-capitalism
This Raymond seems based
No picture exists of him 🙁