Distributism

Actually, Belloc used the term Distributism in his 1924 Economics for Helen; and therein he places Distributism in historical context by admitting that "Distributism" is the rather awkward term coined to explain what had been, throughout the history of the civilized West, a common phenomenon: the existence of widely distributed productive property, in the form of land or a trade or craft and the tools that go with it, privately owned and worked by individual families for the provisions of their basic needs and necessities.

Capitalism and Catholic Economics Part One 2005

One can distinguish as in English Distributism, a conservative and a radical wing.

G.K.'s Weekly - The Southern Agrarians 2008

It was in Orage's New Age that Chesterton and Belloc first expounded the ideas which were to become known as Distributism, and it was in those pages also that the historic meeting between Distributism and Social Credit took place.

A History of Distributism 2008

Chesterton knew that the word Distributism sounds suspicious to the ear.

Distributism vs. Capitalism 2007

And on what in practical terms Distributism might have to offer in response to them?

Archive 2009-02-01 Tom Laney 2009

Chesterton, popularized a theory known as Distributism, and a simple Google search will turn up pages worth of modern Distributist theories, practices, and demonstrated successes.

Archive 2009-03-01 John M 2009

It is called Distributism because it believes in widening the distribution of ownership to all levels of society.

Archive 2009-01-01 Paleocrat 2009

So it is, in my opinion, with so-called Distributism; it is infinitely strange because our actual communities are so perverse.

Distributism Vs. Laissez-faire Capitalism 2008

The first thing to understand is that the idea of Distributism existed long before the word was invented.

A History of Distributism 2008

The horseman of the Shires, The trumpet of the Yeomanry, The hammer of the Squires ...the first exponent of what we now call Distributism - William Cobbett, one of the greatest of Englishmen.

A History of Distributism 2008