tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post5712253221984774843..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: Building a Community of TrustJohn Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-5615093271250859942008-12-16T09:48:00.000-06:002008-12-16T09:48:00.000-06:00Hi DV,I am not sure I would agree that distributis...Hi DV,<BR/><BR/>I am not sure I would agree that distributism would be simply informal, if that is what you mean. After all, the early <I>League</I> did call for political action, had 24 branches across Britain, supported the implementation of <I>guilds</I>, in particular The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, and encouraged the Catholic Land Association actively.<BR/><BR/>Sure, Distributism is a philosophy, but it is also an economic model. And while for sure some people may live a distributist life, that life requires -as Dr. Carmine Gorga puts it- "interdependence".<BR/><BR/>For that to happen, initiatives are required not only to change the lives of individuals, but of society at large. These "schemes" were always advocated by the early movement, and so, we continue today to advocate organization.Richard Alemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-57981134763625388832008-12-16T09:38:00.000-06:002008-12-16T09:38:00.000-06:00I thought the whole point of distributism was that...I thought the whole point of distributism was that it's the closest thing to what people would like to do in an "informal" and practical way - hence it has a religious side to it, in that Chesterton and Belloc both thought that human flourishing per se happened most comprehensively in a Christian society (in terms of ideals, not always results!).<BR/><BR/>In that sense, you only need to walk down the street for 10 minutes to find some distributists; the only problem is that in our modern culture, what comes naturally (in the sense of rational human nature!) is directly opposed and "censored" by culture, economics etc so it never becomes very big and visible.<BR/><BR/>But it must be happening anywhere a few people share some normal life together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-81885971935388309552008-12-15T20:13:00.000-06:002008-12-15T20:13:00.000-06:00Bravo, Richard. Your meeting illustrated something...Bravo, Richard. Your meeting illustrated something that has always bothered me, namely that many of the people who know distributism have no way of putting it into action, and many of those who are putting it into action haven't heard about distributism. Your efforts help to bridge that gap. There may be a lot more "distributists" out there than we know about.John Médaillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.com