The Disease of Monopoly
This disease of monopoly, which is ruining freedom, and against which nearly all men protest, is a main symptom of our modern mortal disease.
Answer to John Cort
Dorothy Day repudiates John Cort and other Catholics who see Distributism as an agrarian visionary dream.
A Postscript On Priests and Squires
When we come to those men of the margin, we shall really want exactly the sort of thing that priests can give and squires cannot.
The Restoration of Property
No man attempting the restoration of property can say, “Here is my cut and dried plan.” You cannot do it, because it is normal to man, organic.
Two Difficulties
The State has limped authority belonging rightly to the family; but two difficulties must be overcome before the cure can be applied.
The Guild System
The Guild is the oldest, most deeply rooted of all human institutions. It has appeared in all civilizations because it is necessary to stability.
Communism Has Failed
There are four main proposals Communism offered for setting things right again. The first three are false remedies, the fourth is the true remedy.
There Was A Socialist
The Capitalist is often a simple soul and when he wants to abuse anybody, he calls him a Socialist.
The Differential Tax
The principle of the Differential Tax is that a different proportion of taxation and amount may be applied to men in different circumstances.
What We Are Getting At
We know very plainly what we want, and we know in general how to get it, as soon as we have the power—that is, the numbers—to demand it.
Property
The whole meaning of property is the economic freedom which it bestows upon the individual or family possessing it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The death of Gilbert Keith Chesterton—or “G.K.” as we called him—allows us to see his life as a complete and unique whole.
The True Case Against Communism
The reason for religion, apart from revelation, is in the nature of a man's life; and the reason the Marxian cannot find it is because he must limit a man's life to a man's living.
Ruin of the Small Store Owner
This small owner, a typical citizen of a fee contented state, is rapidly disappearing under our evil modern conditions.
The Wage Worker
The wage worker is one who works not for himself but for another at wage paid him by that other.
Chesterton’s Response to Shaw Part Two
"Among the bewildering welter of fallacies which Mr. Shaw has just given us," Chesterton says, "I prefer to deal first with the simplest."
Chesterton’s Response to Shaw
"Mr. Shaw is making abstract diagrams of triangles, squares, and circles; we are trying to paint a portrait, the portrait of a man."
The Problem Stated
The problem with which we are faced is as follows: citizens politically free and politically equal do not possess the means of livelihood.
The Case of Adam Smith
Adam Smith’s idea of justifying the ways of God to men, was to tell the men to do unjustifiable things which God would justify.
The Modern Phase
This first form of social evil produced by the modern spirit is rather a tendency to slavery than actual slavery.