Archive for Category: "Vintage Distributism"
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.
The Education of E.F. Schumacher
He spent the last few remaining years of his life basking in the reflected glory of his best-selling book, secure in the knowledge that he had radically changed the outlook of millions of people. By 1977 his views had become so popular that he was invited by President Carter for a half-hour talk in the White House and the President was keen to be photographed holding a copy of Small is Beautiful.
Distributismo en lugar de neoliberalismo
Chesterton y el Trabajador Católico insistían que toda la gente había sido creada a imagen y semejanza de Dios y no debería ser tratada como piñones de una maquinaria u obligada a trabajar 12 horas diarias en trabajos forzados con sueldos de esclavitud, mientras que las grandes corporaciones y sus directores se hacían fabulosamente ricos.
Chesterton’s Scrapbook: A Look at G.K.’s Weekly
From a talk delivered at Christendom College, February 28, 2006, in celebration of the college’s acquisition of a rare complete set of G.K.’s Weekly 1925-1937.
Managed Currency
Merely to fabricate a certain amount of artificial money therefore and to keep it at the same figure will subject you to the same inconvenience as you would have with any other medium, while getting none of the advantages of a real currency.
The Ruin of the Small Storekeeper
The phrase “small distributor” is a pompous but accurate way of saying “small storekeeper.” He also was an economically free man as was the unencumbered farmer of his own land. The small storekeeper was an independent citizen under no master. He is threatened with disappearance like his brother the small owner: the craftsman, the farmer.
The Enemies of Property
I am well aware that the word “property” has been defiled in our time by the corruption of the greedy capitalists. One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothchilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property.
The Distributist League
A bulletin for Leaguers from Hilary Pepler, Honorable Secretary for The Distributist League.
An Economic Creed
From G.K.’s Weekly comes one of Fr. McNabb’s masterful and beautiful works ever written.