I will not be posting on the Review for a little while, as I am going through some personal spiritual and psychological matters that need resolving.
I ask for your prayers and good wishes while I'm gone. Mr. Weismiller and Mr. Medaille will post on this blog when needed.
Again, my thanks to our readers - in America and abroad - for your faithfulness and patience and prayers.
Thanks to our colleague at Athanasius Contra Mundum, we have an excerpt from Hilaire Belloc’s The Servile State. This work is one of the five “foundation stones” of Distributist Thought.
This excerpt deals with the origins of Capitalism and it’s effect on the average man. Read it and ponder it. And then act on what you ponder.
Thanks to our colleague at The Western Confucian, we present a link HERE to a New Oxford Review (NOR) article by our fellow contributor, John C. Medaille. Originally written in January of 2000, John writes about how decentralizing productive private property and decentralizing political power go hand in hand.
As is the case with all past NOR articles, one must pay a small fee to read and print the entire post. But it is a price worth paying for such excellent points as John makes.
And if you decide to contact NOR about this great Medaille piece, please let them know you read about it from The Distributist Review. And thank you.
This article has been making the rounds on the American alternative media. Written by Michael Mandel for the pro-globalist Business Week magazine, this article proves that taking well-paid jobs in America overseas does great damage to her economy.
Distributism believes in economic self-sufficiency for a nation, as much as it can. Part of sustaining such a policy is NOT sending good-paying jobs overseas.
Continue pressuring the Congress and your state representatives to end trade and economic policies that encourage offshoring jobs.
Distributism believes in supporting the local economy over the “global economy”. It defends and promotes small and medium-sized businesses and cooperatives over big business and multinational conglomerates. It holds that government policy - national and local - should favor small businesses and co-ops rather than big businesses.
With this in mind, we have news about an alliances of small businesses that has been operating since 2001. With over 15,000 members in America and Canada, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) provides tools and resources to build local economies. With members of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and the E. F. Schumacher Society on their advisory board, BALLE helps grow community-based businesses and more.
Networks like this, along with cutting the size and scope of big government, will help America and Canada move toward a Distributist future. For further information on what you can do to bring this to your neighborhood, click on the link above.
And then act on what your learn.
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