Ideologies / Distributist / G. K. Chesterton
§ The minds · 1874–1936 · United Kingdom · Writer
G. K. Chesterton
Three acres and a cow
Property for the many, not the few.
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SocialistMarket
Governance+48
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−60
TraditionalProgressive
The essayist who, with Belloc, founded distributism — the idea that productive property should be spread as widely as possible, against both monopoly capitalism and socialism.
social
Catholic traditionalist; defender of the ordinary man.
economic
Widely distributed small property — neither big capital nor the state.
governance
Traditional moral order rooted in family and locality.
Notable for
- Co-founded distributism
- 'The Outline of Sanity'
- Prolific Catholic essayist
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