The ChesterBelloc Mandate

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98559542009-12-18T09:34:01.025-05:00The ChesterBelloc MandateUnder ConstructionRichard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comBlogger487125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-30567387826312521242009-04-20T08:01:00.001-04:002009-04-20T08:02:39.858-04:00Distributism by Thomas Storck

Dear Friends,For all who wish to read a copy of Mr. Storck's paper from the "Catholicism and Economics" conference, please go to The Distributist Review.

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-48070622560184952362009-04-15T07:42:00.002-04:002009-04-15T07:43:16.841-04:00Capitalist-Socialist-Distributist Conference

For the article, please go to The Distributist Review.

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-90471083981983112022009-04-02T21:33:00.005-04:002009-04-03T08:04:27.244-04:00Servire Deo Regnare Est!

Dear friends of The Society for Distributism,Tomorrow we embark on a new adventure. As most of you are aware, Thomas Storck will represent The Society for Distributism at the Nassau Community College Center for Catholic Studies’ “Catholicism and Economics” conference/debate, in Garden City, New York. John Médaille, Ryan Grant, Jeremiah Bannister, Bill Powell, and myself will be present at the

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-48400620678948847142009-03-15T11:29:00.005-04:002009-03-15T11:46:05.412-04:00Learning from the Land: In the School of Saint Benedict

by Br. Philip Anderson, Prior[Editor's Note: Please consider making a donation to Clear Creek Monastery. The Rule of St. Benedict is and should be an example to distributists across the world. The Benedictine monks at Clear Creek tirelessly work to "...build something beautiful for God" centering their lives in Ora et Labora (Prayer and Work).] February 2009Dear Friend,As we enter the Lenten

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-69155857986452441622009-03-14T09:42:00.001-04:002009-03-14T10:55:14.933-04:00Distributist Materials

Distributist FAQ What Is Distributism? An Introduction to Distributism The Society for Distributism Brochure

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-18990458651775532222009-03-10T12:27:00.003-04:002009-03-14T14:27:12.677-04:00Is There A Bellocian Response For Today’s Economic Crisis?

Dear readers of The Distributist Review,Paul Likoudis, News Editor for The Wanderer -the oldest Catholic newspaper in the United States- recently conducted an interview with yours truly regarding "Bellocian Economics," and has kindly granted us permission to reprint it here. Our thanks go to Mr. Likoudis for the opportunity. We would also like to applaud The Wanderer for their recent defense of

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-30096434316178350162009-03-04T13:52:00.001-05:002009-03-04T13:54:06.446-05:00From John Médaille over at The Distributist Review

John: "It is long been rumored that Pope Benedict XVI has been preparing a new social encyclical which will address the current crises. Robert Moynihan writes of it here. The Pope may have given some hints about its contents during a meeting with the clergy of Rome on February 27."Our readers may interested to read Mr. Moynihan's piece, which makes mention of a certain well known ChesterBellocian

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-32087201894104427572009-03-01T17:07:00.002-05:002009-03-01T17:40:18.181-05:00The Weekly Review - A Novice and the New Economics

by S. SagarA correspondent asks me when I am going to enlarge on the sentence with which I closed a recent article, a sentence expressing doubt about the remedy of the Credit Reformers.As a matter of fact, I had not meant to enlarge upon it. I regard the subject much, as I regard the game of chess, that is, I find it fascinating, but I have always been too busy (or too lazy) to give it that close

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-23496679371409061042009-02-25T13:20:00.001-05:002009-02-25T13:22:43.612-05:00Coming Alive in 2009

G.K. Chesterton's ManAlive

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-26857990066152523922009-02-19T21:05:00.001-05:002009-02-19T21:40:36.718-05:00An Examination of Socialism Part III

by Hilaire BellocIt must, however, finally be asked of the man who criticizes the Socialist proposal: “If you will not accept his positive and clear remedy for the intolerable conditions of modern industrial society, what alternative have you?”It is as though a man suffering from a bad limb were to hesitate to have it amputated, and the surgeon were to say to him; “If you will not let me cut it

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-30728771713584273002009-02-19T08:39:00.003-05:002009-02-19T16:47:26.569-05:00Thomas Storck Radio Interview

Dear friends,Jeremiah Bannister's radio interview with Thomas Storck is now available (click here). Please remember to go to the sidebar on the right to access the three-segment broadcast.In addition, we wish to introduce a second pamphlet for the benefit of our readers and activists. Originally written at the start of the new millennium, Thomas Storck reintroduced us to the social and political

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-52701377323364439732009-02-18T09:44:00.001-05:002009-02-18T09:48:19.064-05:00Something Old, Something New

by Richard AlemanG.K. Chesterton once said trade, which by its very nature is a secondary thing, has become a primary thing.Case in point, the portrait of an unnatural matrimony between government and the powerful elites of business and finance. What happens when big government and big business collaborate? For one, justice becomes –to put it bluntly– empty. Judges order billionaires to “go to

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-52915970940195028042009-02-17T16:42:00.002-05:002009-02-17T16:44:40.481-05:00Announcements, Announcements, Announcements!

Dear friends and readers of The ChesterBelloc Mandate,For our readers in the Ohio area, Sebastian's Church, Akron, will be hosting a performance of "Old Thunder: An Afternoon with Hilaire Belloc", a one-man show featuring Kevin O'Brien, founder of Theater of the Word, on Sunday, March 15th at 1 p.m. in Zwisler Hall. The program is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be taken.

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-38030065547581905442009-02-15T19:11:00.004-05:002009-02-16T05:57:47.072-05:00How the Guilds May Be Restored

by A.J. PentyPassing on now to consider the problem of ways and means of re-introducing the Guild System, the first fact we must grasp is that the Guilds cannot be reestablished by further evolution upon the lines along which society is now travelling, but by the development of those forces which run counter to what may be considered the normal line of social evolution.Of these, the first force

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-41854241112772857842009-02-14T20:19:00.001-05:002009-02-14T20:19:59.427-05:00Something Old, Something New

For the article go to The Distributist Review

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-15678926646112836032009-02-13T08:10:00.007-05:002009-02-13T18:55:38.463-05:00An Examination of Socialism Part II

by Hilaire BellocIn the first place, no man in a Socialistic State would be what we now call free. This is a proposition very hotly denied by many Socialists, because they believe it to be an unfair and a misleading one; but no clear thinker can deny it, and by far the best arguments used in this connection by the clearest thinkers upon the Socialistic side are to the effect that, though the

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-31709953246694324712009-02-10T07:38:00.005-05:002009-02-10T08:21:07.707-05:00An Examination of Socialism Part I

by Hilaire BellocSocialism is a political theory according to which people would be happier and better if the means of production—that is, the land of a country and its buildings, ships, machines, rails, etc.—belonged to the Government instead of belonging, as they now mainly do, to private citizens and private corporations.That is the only exclusive meaning of Socialism. All the other wobbly

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-89275092963447849862009-02-09T14:28:00.002-05:002009-02-09T14:30:57.802-05:00Interview with Dale Ahlquist Today!

Dear friends,While perhaps an informal post, I wish to first apologise for my recent absence, but as can be expected, I am preparing for the upcoming "Catholicism and Economics" conference. Shortly, the fruit of my work, which includes an "FAQ/Recommended Reading List," the nonprofit brochure, as well as a couple of pieces of distributist literature, will be available to readers of The

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-68041571728076735772009-01-24T20:27:00.004-05:002009-01-24T21:14:48.290-05:00An Excerpt From Catholicism, Capitalism or Communism?

by Jeremiah C. HarringtonThe thesis defended in this book is that the free development of Catholicism is the real cure for our social and industrial ills. We do think that the abuses of Capitalism are as dangerous as Socialism or Communism. The Church does not condemn Capitalism any more than she never condemned slavery, yet the influence of Catholicism was the diminution and ultimately the

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-68180238202877264672009-01-19T13:18:00.001-05:002009-01-19T13:20:41.906-05:00Why Distributism Can Work (For Us, Right Now) Part I

by Richard AlemanJohn F. Triolo, Editor for The Contrarian’s Review, recently invited me to respond to his article, “Why Distributism Can’t Work (For Us, Right Now)” (click here for part 2). I want to thank him for the opportunity to respond to this very important topic and share it with our readers at The Review.Before I begin, I wish to offer a word regarding Mr. Triolo’s perspective on

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-68911088507030731662009-01-10T11:28:00.002-05:002009-01-10T11:36:28.855-05:00Jefferson vs. Hamilton

[Editor's note: While we certainly do not agree with Jefferson's enthusiasm for European revolution, among our other conflicts with Jefferson's political thought, we may certainly contrast him with his opponent's support for central banking and national debt accumulation. The following is a clip from HBO's miniseries, John Adams.]

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-47285617279646486212009-01-08T16:02:00.004-05:002009-01-10T07:39:21.315-05:00An Interview With Thomas Storck

We are honored for the opportunity to interview author and distributist, Thomas Storck. Mr. Storck has written articles in many prestigious publications. He is the author of The Catholic Milieu, Foundations of a Catholic Political Order, and is on the Editorial Board of the Chesterton Review.Mr. Storck will represent The Society for Distributism at this year's "Catholicism and Economics"

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-44076816148950669772009-01-07T08:02:00.002-05:002009-01-07T08:07:19.359-05:00Annotated Edition of William Cobbett's "The Emigrant's Guide"

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, USA. Economic Justice Media, has published an annotated edition of The Emigrant's Guide, a rediscovered classic by William Cobbett (1763-1835), the "Apostle of Distributism." This new edition features a foreword by Michael D. Greaney, Director of Research of the Center for Economic and Social Justice ("CESJ"). The foreword examines Cobbett's focus on widespread direct

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-21412065304684223492009-01-06T09:21:00.013-05:002009-01-08T11:14:10.547-05:00What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?

by Thomas StorckThe title of this article, “What Does Centesimus Annus Really Teach?,” seems to imply that there might be some dispute about the teaching of Centesimus Annus, the latest of the three social encyclicals written by our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II. And this is correct. For when Centesimus was issued in 1991 it generated an unusual amount of discussion. In fact, certain

Richard Alemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05272016770106926094Distributism@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855954.post-79417365774319824352009-01-05T10:16:00.003-05:002009-02-09T16:19:10.745-05:00Final Details for "Catholicism and Economics" Debate

Dear friends,Below are the complete details for this year's scheduled debate.Whether you plan to attend or pass this information on to others, please take note: while the conference is free, advance registration is required. News of this conference is already spreading and expectations are that this event will be well attended. To register, please review the contact details on this flyer.Upon

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