Archive for Category: "Guilds"
A Parallel Economy
Secondary goods are those which are meant to satisfy some want or whim of man, but are not essential as are primary goods. By providing for the basic needs, or at least as many as possible, our community would advance towards the self-sufficiency which is the mark of all true societies.
The Thomist Inheritance and the Household Economy of Father Vincent McNabb
The thought of Fr. Vincent McNabb, the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, and Distributism should be included in this series because they are, quite simply, the most startling Catholic examples, in Britain this century, of the possibilities of ordinary life being thought about and lived in an extraordinary way.
How the Guilds May Be Restored
Like the Guilds, the Unions have grown from small beginnings, until they now control whole trades. Like the Guilds also, they are not political creations, but voluntary organizations which have arisen spontaneously to protect the weaker members of society against the oppression of the more powerful.
The Place of Guilds in A Distributist Economy
Some suppose that as long as there exists the well-distributed property of a Distributist society, free competition among producers and sellers would be beneficial. But any such notion of Distributism fails to take note of one of the key points in the Distributist plan, namely the existence and function of guilds as regulating and moderating forces in a Distributist economy.