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Selling Out: The Perils of Capitalist Small Business

19 July, 2017

by Thomas Storck Not too long ago it was announced that Wicked Weed Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina, which had been a craft brewery, was being sold to Anheuser-Busch, the gigantic beer corporation. The founders of Wicked Weed announced optimistically that Partnering with Anheuser-Busch means great distribution opportunities, more resources, and connections to other breweries…. … More Selling Out: The Perils of Capitalist Small Business

Distributism and Large-Scale Industry

7 April, 2016

Thomas Storck’s recent article about the antagonistic relationship between owners and workers prevalent in capitalist enterprises included the following statement. “The activity of the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain proves that there is no reason why large-scale and highly technical industrial operations cannot be worker owned.” This sentence prompted a reader to respond with a request. … More Distributism and Large-Scale Industry

The Planned Dependent Community

28 March, 2016

“Walmart didn’t kill the once-vibrant cluster of shops next to a railroad and a creek in the faded old coal town of Kimball, W. Va. — the disappearance of the mines had pretty well taken care of that already. But now that Walmart’s leaving, too, as one of 154 U.S. stores the company closed in … More The Planned Dependent Community

Distributism and the Local Organic Farm Community

28 March, 2016

The following is an article by Douglas R. Fox, director of the Center for Sustainability and Global Change at Unity College. This article is reprinted from the Fall 2013 edition of Maine Organic Farmer and Gardener. We thank Professor Fox and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association for their permission to reprint this for … More Distributism and the Local Organic Farm Community

Owners vs. Workers: An Eternal Law of Nature?

17 March, 2016

Thomas Storck A few years ago (November 2, 2013) The Economist magazine, that reliable organ of neo-liberalism that makes few bones about its idolization of material growth as the summum bonum of human existence and its consequent dismissal of anything, such as family life or cultural traditions, that might get in the way of such … More Owners vs. Workers: An Eternal Law of Nature?

Distributism and Labor Unions

26 October, 2015

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