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Distributism, as stated, 20th c.-present

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Distributism is a political and economic ideology holding that ownership of productive property should be distributed as widely as possible among individuals and families rather than concentrated in the hands of the state or a small number of private owners. It emerged primarily in early twentieth-century Britain, associated with Catholic social teaching and developed in the writings of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. It is principally associated with the encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno, the Distributist League founded in 1926, and advocacy for small-scale ownership, agrarianism, and subsidiarity.

Cluster:Egalitarian Pluralists

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