Ideologies / Distributist / Wendell Berry
§ The minds · b. 1934 · United States · Writer & farmer
Wendell Berry
The agrarian conscience
Land, locality, and stewardship.
Economic−30
SocialistMarket
Governance+38
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−40
TraditionalProgressive
The farmer-poet whose decades of essays defend small-scale agrarian life, local economy and stewardship of the land — a distributist sensibility in modern American letters.
social
Traditional agrarian-communitarian values.
economic
Small farms and local economies against industrial agribusiness.
governance
Rooted, local community over distant power.
Notable for
- 'The Unsettling of America'
- Agrarian essays and poetry
- Local-economy advocacy
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