Archive for Category: "G.K. Chesterton"
Two Difficulties
Injustices must be removed, bad systems changed, human values made effective once more in their right order. But these things cannot be done so long as the men and women of the nation are ignorant, apathetic, even antagonistic to what they ought to cherish.
There Was a Socialist
It is not Socialism for the State to endow hospitals, any more than for the State to support reformatories. Socialism is not a condition in which the government can help hard cases or protect and patch up economic evils; it has that power in every healthy Distributist community.
G.K. Chesterton’s Distributism
The home is the place where the important things happen. The economy is the place where the most unimportant things happen. The backwardness of the situation is something constantly pointed out by Chesterton: “There is nothing queerer today than the importance of unimportant things. Except, of course, the unimportance of important things.”
What We Are Getting At
We propose the gradual re-creation of English agriculture, of English crafts, of English country life. We suggest that as England becomes more and more self-supporting the need for foreign markets and food imports will diminish.
A las diez y cuarto de la mañana
Junto a Hilaire Belloc, formó el ariete que atacó al capitalismo y al socialismo por ser las dos caras de una misma moneda. Frente a la imposición del Estado Servil a que llevaban estas propuestas, Belloc y Chesterton proponían un Estado Distributivo, cuya base sería la propiedad privada.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Chesterton could not be contemporary of Marx, the Great War, the Russian Experiment, without seeing the social question to be, what Leo XIII stated it to be, “the Pressing Question of the hour.” He was one of the few who accepted the Pope’s invitation “to strive to secure the good of the people, and to bring to the struggle the full energy of his mind.”
The Seriousness of Salad
That salad is the symbol of Distributism will instantly leap to every well-regulated mind; as it has only just leapt to mine. This is superficially and socially true, as a fact of history; since peasants have dealt much in salads. Salads are luxuries; but they are small luxuries, they are luxuries of the relatively poor.
The True Case Against Communism
Of course he [the communist] suggests that religion is a Capitalist affair; our great millionaires who finance films, newspapers and political parties being famous for their saintly devotion to purity and their horror famous of indecency and divorce.
Wanted, An Unpractical Man
“Efficiency,” of course, is futile for the same reason that strong men, will-power and the superman are futile. That is, it is futile because it only deals with actions after they have been performed. It has no philosophy for incidents before they happen.