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The Servile State (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.96 — 660 ratings — published 1912
An Essay on the Restoration of Property (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.86 — 83 ratings — published 2002
Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise)
by (shelved 9 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.03 — 155 ratings — published 2010
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,074 ratings — published 1973
The Outline of Sanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.02 — 302 ratings — published 1925
Economics for Helen (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.02 — 47 ratings — published 1999
Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,034 ratings — published 1891
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
by (shelved 5 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.91 — 46 ratings — published 2007
The Hound of Distributism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 83 ratings — published 2012
Utopia of Usurers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.76 — 188 ratings — published 1917
What's Wrong with the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,860 ratings — published 1910
Old Principles and the New Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 1942
Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2008
Distributist Perspectives: Volume I (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 15 ratings — published 2004
The Church and the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.33 — 46 ratings — published 1925
Quadragesimo Anno: On Reconstructing the Social Order (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.29 — 112 ratings — published 2007
The Church and the Usurers: Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.89 — 9 ratings — published 2013
Distributism Basics: Foundational Principles (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Flee to the Fields: The Founding Fathers of the Catholic Land Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.48 — 21 ratings — published 2003
The Guild State: Its Principles and Possibilities (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2005
The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2000
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as distributism)
avg rating 4.00 — 274 ratings — published 2006
Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as distributism)
avg rating 3.72 — 107 ratings — published 2000
Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies - And Why They Disappeared (Culture of Enterprise)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.16 — 92 ratings — published 2007
The Pope And The Social Question: The Encyclical Of Leo Xiii. On The Condition Of Labour, Together With Letters From The Vatican, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Economics of the Free Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published 1937
The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G.K. Chesterton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.70 — 27 ratings — published 1982
The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (Thomistic Ressourcement Series)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published
To Build the City of God: Living as Catholics in a Secular Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2014
Economic Personalism: Property, Power and Justice for Every Person (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Crisis of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.20 — 69 ratings — published 1973
Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,594 ratings — published 2013
Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stake Holders Society: Alternatives to the Market and the State (Radical Writing)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1999
Distributism for Dorothy (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2014
Reapproaching Zion: New Essays on Mormon Social Thought (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
Approaching Zion (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 09)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.43 — 977 ratings — published 1989
Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.59 — 51 ratings — published 2022
Nazareth or Social Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published 1933
The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.29 — 45 ratings — published 2005
Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity (Distributist Perspectives series Book 2)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2008
The Third Way: Foundations of Distributism as Contained in the Writings of Pope Leo XIII and Gilbert K. Chesterton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.45 — 20 ratings — published 2012
Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.21 — 135 ratings — published
Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.41 — 336 ratings — published
For ALL the People: Redeeming the Broken Promises of Modern Media and Reclaiming Our Civic Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published
Put Your Money Where Your Life Is: How to Invest Locally Using Self-Directed IRAs and Solo 401(k)s
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.97 — 32 ratings — published
Distributism: A Manifesto (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published
Back to the Land: Distributism and the politics of life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.32 — 424 ratings — published 2020
Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 4.34 — 595 ratings — published 2020
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as distributism)
avg rating 3.96 — 140 ratings — published 2018
“If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.”
― The Servile State
― The Servile State
“Man, like every other organism, can only live by the transformation of his environment to his own use. He must transform his environment from a condition where it is less to a condition where it is more subservient to his needs.
That special, conscious, and intelligent transformation of his environment which is peculiar to the peculiar intelligence and creative faculty of man we call the Production of Wealth.
Wealth is matter which has been consciously and intelligently transformed from a condition in which it is less to a condition in which it is more serviceable to a human need.
Without Wealth man cannot exist. The production of it is a necessity to him, and though it proceeds from the more to the less necessary, and even to those forms of production which we call luxuries, yet in any given human society there is a certain kind and a certain amount of wealth without which human life cannot be lived: as, for instance, in England to-day, certain forms of elaborately prepared food, clothing, fuel, and habitation.
Therefore, to control the production Of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.”
― The Servile State
That special, conscious, and intelligent transformation of his environment which is peculiar to the peculiar intelligence and creative faculty of man we call the Production of Wealth.
Wealth is matter which has been consciously and intelligently transformed from a condition in which it is less to a condition in which it is more serviceable to a human need.
Without Wealth man cannot exist. The production of it is a necessity to him, and though it proceeds from the more to the less necessary, and even to those forms of production which we call luxuries, yet in any given human society there is a certain kind and a certain amount of wealth without which human life cannot be lived: as, for instance, in England to-day, certain forms of elaborately prepared food, clothing, fuel, and habitation.
Therefore, to control the production Of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.”
― The Servile State
