It’s finally happened. The libertarians are seriously, with a straight face and their usual sarcastic smugness, defending Ebenezer Scrooge as a humanitarian hero. And not after the ghosts of Christmas visit him, either. Don’t get...
Distributism recognizes man’s vices and specifically tries to limit the damage they do to the body politic. Capitalism, on the other hand, celebrates those vices (or one of them, at least), and in fact makes one of them the principle of economic action.
The widespread distribution of productive property is the primary goal of Distributism; however, other principles also inform Distributism’s pursuit of this goal.
While in a socialist society none are owners, and in a capitalist society only a few are owners, in a Distributist society most are owners of productive property. This is the defining characteristic of Distributism: the widescale distribution of productive property throughout society.
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