We give thanks! We are happy to announce that The Distributist Review has relaunched its site. For any of you who were not previous readers of the DR, I encourage you to head over and check it out. For those of you who were, I’m sure you share our enthusiasm that the wait for its … More Practical Distributism and The Distributist Review
by Thomas Storck It has sometimes been said that distributism, the economic system that promotes widely distributed productive property – whether this is owned by a single proprietor, a family, or a worker cooperative – is hostile to labor unions and the labor movement. While I do not deny that there may have been someone … More Distributism and Labor Unions
by Thomas Storck Next we come to what we term one’s competitors, that is, those producing or selling the same sort of product. Under capitalism such producers are pretty much the enemy. Though there is a certain amount of collaboration on shared concerns – such as lobbying the government on matters of interest for the … More Distributism or Capitalism: Two Ways to Work – Part 2
by Thomas Storck When human beings engage in economic activity they engage with other people. Even a gardener cultivating his own small plot has probably obtained his seeds and his tools from others and at least depends upon the larger society for the social stability that allows him to plant his garden with a reasonable … More Distributism or Capitalism: Two Ways to Work – Part 1
Here is another distributist web site to check out. Movimento Distributista Italiano Like this site, they have enabled the translate feature for others to read their articles.
For those of you who subscribe, Dale Ahlquist has an excellent article about Distributism and industries like airlines in the latest issue of Gilbert Magazine. For those of you who don’t subscribe, I recommend you head on over to The American Chesterton Society to rectify the situation.
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