distributism

American  

[dih-strib-yoo-tiz-uhm] / dɪˈstrɪb yʊˌtɪz əm /

noun

1. a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.

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Other Word Forms

• distributist noun

Etymology

Origin of distributism

First recorded in 1920–25; distribut(e) + -ism

Example Sentences

In “Submission,” the Islamic authority, with the author’s felt approval, turns toward Chestertonian distributism, with large enterprises denied subsidy and small artisanal ones encouraged.

From The New Yorker

They both criticised capitalism and socialism and favoured their own doctrine: distributism.

From BBC

He espoused "Distributism," a warm-hearted and thoroughly impractical program that recalled the days of yeomanry, when every man had three acres and a cow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of "Distributism" led him to Rome.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the course of turning out about ten articles, on Hitler, on Humanism, on determinism, on Distributism, on Dollfuss and Darwin and the Devil knows what, there really are thoughts about real people that cross my mind suddenly and make me really happy in a real way: and one of them is the news of your engagement.

From Project Gutenberg