Hi all!

I used the search function and nothing came up when I searched for distributivism. Was wondering what ya'll think of it?

i posted this on a libertarian website:

Perhaps a third option? Not capitalism or socialism, but distributivism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

This grew out of Catholic thought and teaching.

distributivistreview.com

What is distributivism?
http://distributistreview.com/mag/test-2/

Catholic social teaching:
http://distributistreview.com/mag/test-2/catholic-social-tea...

Reading list:
http://distributistreview.com/mag/test-2/recommended-reading/

Research links:
http://distributistreview.com/mag/test-2/contemporary-list/

[Crony] Capitalism: Means of production in few hands
Socialism (Communism?): Means of production in government or public hands
Distributivism: Means of distribution distributed as widely as possible; similar to co-ops and small (medium?) businesses; guilds; not inherently luddite but may tend towards agrarian society and ethic.

Thomas Woods, Jr., "Catholic", argues against distributivism on a Mises entry: http://mises.org/daily/1062

This is not taught strongly in any mainstream "Catholic" schools or universities as far as I'm aware, but is something I think may be "cutting edge" alternative culture revived in the future which has been intuitively realized within the culture we live to some extent with aforementioned analogous examples.

For anyone out there into Jєωιѕн cօռspιʀαcιҽs, Rothbard and Mises, top libertarian economists, were both Jєωs. So I have some skepticism about Austrian economics at the moment and have been weighing other possible alternatives. Are there other libertarian schools of thought in conflict with the Austrians?

It is also possible that elements of distributivism might be gleaned from the theory and put into the free market.

-p

edit addition:
Libertarian vs./+ distributivist debate discussion:
http://libertariansvsdistributists.blogspot.com/

Christopher Ferrara, writing for the Remnant, "In Defense of Distributivism":
http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2011-1225-ferrara-d...

^Ferrara and Woods, both indult-circle "Catholics", had a public falling out and Ferrera wrote an anti-libertarian book, "Liberty: The god that Failed"

Both spellings work actually I'm pretty sure. I didn't think to search other spelling. Thanks for these!

TIA did some serious articles picking apart the ideas and persons who came up with the distributist concept. I'm not particularly versed in it since I seem to be preoccupied dealing with American Marxism at the moment, but here's a good place to start, with a citation from St. Thomas Aquinas....

http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n011rp_Inequalities_Aquinas.htm

Actually I saw that article in a post from Cathinfo referenced above and thought it wasn't on point at all.

Distributivists aren't against "inequalities" - they are for distributing the means of production widely.

From my reading of distributivism and the articles on TIA, their couple authors did not understand the thrust of what distributivism is trying to do.

"Crony" Capitalism: means of production in hands of a wealthy few
Socialism/Communism: means of production in the hands of government/public
Distributivism: means of production as wicely distributed theoughout the population as possible