Richard Aleman is the president of The Society for Distributism, a contributing editor for Gilbert Magazine, The Remnant, and he blogs at St. Austin Review‘s Ink Desk. A native Spaniard, Richard resides in New York where he has just completed The Hound of Distributism, a book of various authors.

On Pilgrimage – November 1961

The warm papal endorsement of cooperatives is particularly significant since previous social encyclicals and addresses did not give much attention to this form of enterprise, according to Fr. Cronin.

The Distributist Thinking of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When Solzhenitsyn committed the sin of criticizing the West in front of the 1978 Harvard graduating class, and dismissed Western materialism as a false alternative for the world, those same European and American thinkers that once cheered Solzhenitsyn as a champion for freedom consequently berated his scrutiny and ignored Solzhenitsyn’s social, political, and economic analysis.

On Political Economy

I will ask, is it possible for a child to be educated who becomes a full-timer at ten or even twelve years of age? Is it possible for a child in the agricultural districts to be educated who may be sent out into the fields at nine? I will ask, can a woman be the mother and head of a family who works sixty hours a week?

Capitalismo o socialismo, convento o serrallo

Fue Gilbert quien más escribió sobre distributismo, y sobre la necesidad de considera la propiedad privada como un derecho básico de la persona, derecho que se aplicaba con la debida precisión de que dicha propiedad estuviera lo más repartida posible y fuera directa, no fiduciaria.

Where Are the Poor?

What can we do, what is to be done? First of all, we can admit that our so-called American way of life has meant great inequalities, and that there does indeed exist a great mass of poor and unemployed people who are in need of help in this country as well as abroad. We need to study ways to change the social order.

Sobre el distributismo

El distributismo nace entre finales del XIX y principios del XX a raíz de las premisas vertidas en la encíclica Rerum Novarum, en la cual el Santo Padre León XIII hace un repaso a la situación social del momento, incidiendo en las condiciones inhumanas en que se encuentran los trabajadores por obra del sistema capitalista.

La Grande Illusion

States pour millions each year into a movie industry which is far from going under. But why should Hollywood receive subsidies with worldwide box office receipts and home entertainment sales turning flops into moneymakers, and with 50 of the largest companies accounting for 80 percent of $55 billion in annual estimated returns?

The Distributist League

A bulletin for Leaguers from Hilary Pepler, Honorable Secretary for The Distributist League.

An Interview With Thomas Storck

We are honored for the opportunity to interview author and distributist, Thomas Storck. Mr. Storck has written articles in many prestigious publications. He is the author of The Catholic Milieu, Foundations of a Catholic Political Order, and is on the Editorial Board of the Chesterton Review.