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The Curiosity of Immigrant Ownership in the United States
Phillip Campbell, Politics Phillip Campbell 12/21/18 Phillip Campbell, Politics Phillip Campbell 12/21/18

The Curiosity of Immigrant Ownership in the United States

What explains this pattern of immigrant owned businesses? It is that ownership is vested not in the individual so much as the family.

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An Example
Economics, Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc 12/20/18 Economics, Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc 12/20/18

An Example

Citizens who have been long deprived of their property and who have ceased to feel the instinct for it, tend to lose their citizenship.

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Distributism, Now?
Economics, Karl Schmude Karl Schmude 5/30/16 Economics, Karl Schmude Karl Schmude 5/30/16

Distributism, Now?

Having explored the intellectual and psychological roots of the origins of Distributism, Karl Schmude looks at how applicable Distributism is in our time.

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An Awkward, Accurate Name
David McGinty, Philosophy David J. McGinty 5/10/16 David McGinty, Philosophy David J. McGinty 5/10/16

An Awkward, Accurate Name

As the father of the word Distributism, Belloc thought it an awkward word but also accurate in that it emerged from the term "distributive justice".

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The New Dark Ages
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 4/21/16 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 4/21/16

The New Dark Ages

Certain critics tell us that we wish to return to the Dark Ages about which they themselves are entirely in the dark.

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Communism: the Theory
Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 4/7/16 Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 4/7/16

Communism: the Theory

The principle of Communism is that public authority shall not protect the property of any man when it is used for production, distribution, or exchange.

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Pesch and the Chesterbelloc
Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 3/20/16 Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 3/20/16

Pesch and the Chesterbelloc

Heinrich Pesch and the Chesterbelloc: Complement or Conflict?

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Conversations on Distributism
Catholic Worker, Vintage Distributism Dorothy Day 1/29/16 Catholic Worker, Vintage Distributism Dorothy Day 1/29/16

Conversations on Distributism

Our conversations must of necessity be elliptical and disjointed what with swing shifts, hours of work, duties onĀ four acres, wife and six children.

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Property
Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 6/18/11 Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 6/18/11

Property

The whole meaning of property is the economic freedom which it bestows upon the individual or family possessing it.

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The True Case Against Communism
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 5/7/11 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 5/7/11

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.

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A Modest Proposal
Culture, Rebekah Grace Potts, Urbanism Grace Potts 9/29/10 Culture, Rebekah Grace Potts, Urbanism Grace Potts 9/29/10

A Modest Proposal

Chiefly, citizen-led development and locally-owned small businesses are the bedrock of the tax base and the backbone of a stable, healthy community and economy.

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The Enemies of Property
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 1/1/10 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 1/1/10

The Enemies of Property

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.

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