Distributism on the 12 Axes

Distributism grew from Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), which defended private property and workers' rights at the same time, and from Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno (1931), which set out the principle of subsidiarity: decisions belong at the lowest competent level. In England, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc turned these ideas into a movement, arguing that when too few people own property, the rest fall into servitude, whether to monopolies or to the state. Distributists favor family farms, small shops, guilds, credit unions and worker-owned firms, along with laws that break up concentration. Unlike socialism, they want ownership to be private but widespread. Unlike free-market conservatism, they distrust big business. Compared with Christian democracy, they seek a deeper change in how property is held.

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