In the current debate about wages, both sides are presenting some good points in support of their own side and against the other side. This article will attempt to look at these points and address them from a distributist perspective. The Minimum Wage The argument for raising the minimum wage is that it is nearly, … More Wages: Minimum, Market, or Just?
In the introduction to this series, I stated that distributism is not a middle ground between capitalism on the one side and socialism on the other. Distributism is not an attempt to compromise between them. Instead, distributism stands outside of and completely apart from those systems. The goal of distributism is not to negotiate a … More Distributism Basics: Distributist Economic Society
“A community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view of the … More Distributism Basics: The Nature and Roles of Government
There seems to be a theory, popular among the critics of distributism, that distributists either don’t understand the science of economics, or that we don’t believe economics is a science. To listen to them, we don’t accept the laws of supply and demand, scarcity, the theory of diminishing returns, or the many other aspects of … More Distributism Basics: The Science of Economics
“Distributism is just like capitalism, except that we differ on the nature of man, the purpose of economic activity, usury, the maximization of token wealth, the role and legitimate exercise of the state, empirical economics, the meaning of subsidiarity, subordination of economics to the higher sciences, our ends, our means, what money is, what wealth … More Distributism Basics: Distributism vs. Capitalism
In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, three alternatives were proposed to alleviate the conditions of the working classes under capitalism: distributism, Keynesian capitalism, and socialism. Distributists are sometimes accused of being socialists, or at least quasi-socialists. This article will examine the nature of socialism and how it is completely incompatible with distributism. Capitalism … More Distributism Basics: Distributism vs. Socialism
Practical Distributism 