Editing Distributism (section)

==Foundations and Beliefs==
===Tenets===
Distributism can be defined by four major tenets, which all distributists agree are necessarily distributist: 

*Widespread ownership of property: Workers should be owners and businesses should be comprised of worker co-operatives, family businesses, or ESOP-based traditional businesses whenever possible and that people should own both their own personal private property as well as maintain some kind of ownership of private productive property whenever possible. 
**The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. - Hilaire Belloc

*Anti-Trust Legislation: Large businesses must be broken up into smaller, more local businesses whenever possible. 
**The problem with capitalism is not that there are too many capitalists but too few. - G.K. Chesterton
*The Principle of the Subsidiarity: The government should never intervene in cases where a lower level of government (down to, and including, the individual, who governs himself) would be able to fix the issue. In short, if problem cannot be solved by level X, it goes to be solved by level (X + 1) and so on. This is also called "stratification of the federal government" or sometimes just "decentralization". 
**Civil society exists for the common good, and hence is concerned with the interests of all in general, albeit with individual interests also in their due place and degree. It is therefore called a public society, because by its agency, as St. Thomas of Aquinas says, “Men establish relations in common with one another in the setting up of a commonwealth.” - Pope Leo XIII

*The Indivisible Unit: The smallest social unit is the family, not the individual as in capitalism. This means that laws must be considered with the full thought of the familial consequences as well as that laws must provide for family units rather than individuals because distributism recognizes that an individual is a part of the larger collective of his family and that what happens to him affects the family.  
**Hence we have the family, the “society” of a man’s house — a society very small, one must admit, but none the less a true society, and one older than any State. Consequently, it has rights and duties peculiar to itself which are quite independent of the State. - Pope Leo XIII
===Schools of Thought===
====[[File:SocDist.png]] {{PCBA|Social Distributism}} [[File:DistSocDem.png]]====
[[File:Socialdistributism flag.svg|thumb|220x220px|Flag of Social Distributism]]
'''Social Distributism''', or '''SocDist''', sometimes mistakenly referred to as '''Left Distributism''' is an [[File:CLeft.png]] economically center-left to [[File:Leftunity.png]] left-wing and culturally variable ideology that combines stances from [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributism and [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] or [[File:Patcon.png]] [[Paternalistic Conservatism]]. Social Distributism advocates mostly pursue and advocate for the core Distributist principles of widespread ownership of productive property, subsidiarity, and a preference for small-scale enterprise in the context of a well-regulated market economy with a robust and sustainable welfare state. 

Social Distributism essentially represents the [[File:Leftunity.png]] left wing of the broader [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributist movement, encompassing tendencies that seek to achieve a [[File:QuasiSoc.png]] [[Socialism|socialist]]-oriented form of Distributism through significantly [[File:Regulationism.png]] greater state intervention than [[File:ClassDistr.png]] classical Distributism usually implies. This can range from moderate positions that simply add a [[File:DistSocDem.png]] [[Welfarism|generous welfare state]], workers’ cooperatives, and strong anti-monopoly measures on top of the traditional Distributist toolkit, to more radical variants that incorporate elements of market socialism, syndicalism, or democratic socialism while retaining a commitment to decentralised ownership and opposition to both corporate capitalism and fully nationalized state socialism.

====[[File:National_Distributism.png]] {{PCBA|National Distributism}}====
[[File:National_Distributism_flag.svg|thumb|220x220px|Flag of National Distributism]]'''National Distributism,''' abbreviated as '''NazDist''' or '''NatDist,''' is a civically variable, culturally variable (but usually right-wing), economically center-left to far-left, nationalist, and third positionist ideology which blends [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributism with some variety of [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism]]. 
National Distributism believes that the ideal of a economy of small producers is the one best equipped to serve the nation. In most versions of National Distributism, the economy would be a mixed system in which the vast majority of production, retail, and services are carried out either by small privately-owned family businesses (farms, shops, trades, workshops, with every family owning its own home and a productive plot of land) or by worker-owned co-operatives (where factories, offices, and larger enterprises are handed over to the workforce that runs them on a one-worker-one-share basis). Occupational guilds, or corporations, for each trade and profession own or oversee the co-operatives in their sector, license and support small private producers, prevent the re-emergence of monopolies through regulation and assistance, and negotiate wages, prices, standards, and output levels via joint worker-owner councils within the guild; delegates from these guilds form a national guild congress that replaces parliament as the main economic decision-making body.

====[[File:Techdist.png]] {{PCBA|Techno-Distributism}}====
Techno-Distributism is the combination of Distributism with technologies and automation.
====[[File:NeoreactDist.png]] Dark Distributism====
[[File:NeoreactDist.png]] Dark Distributism is a theoretical variant of Distributism that merges its core principles of widespread ownership of productive assets and economic decentralization with the ideas of [[File:Nrx.png]] [[Neoreactionarism]] (NRx) or the Dark Enlightenment [[File:Dark_Enlightenment.png]]. This synthesis emphasizes a hierarchical social order, rejection of egalitarian democracy, and a return to traditional authority structures, such as [[File:Mondistli.png]] monarchy or sovereign corporations, while maintaining distributist economics to prevent concentrations of power in both state and [[File:Cap.png]] capitalist hands. It often incorporates elements of [[File:Rightac.png]] [[Accelerationism|technological accelerationism]], [[File:Cultcon.png]][[Traditionalism|cultural conservatism]], and [[File:Antiprog.png]] anti-progressive critiques, viewing modern liberal democracy as a degenerative force. Proponents might argue for a "[[File:Urb.png]][[Ultramunicipialism]]" of small, autonomous distributist communities governed by exit-based systems rather than voice-based democracy, ensuring stability through strong leadership and inherited property rights.
===Regional Tendencies===
====[[File:Mondragon.png]] The Mondragón Corporation====
In 1941, a young Catholic priest named [[File:Catheo.png]] José María Arizmendiarrieta settled in Mondragón, a Basque town with a population of 7,000 that had not yet recovered from the consequences of the Spanish Civil War. Fr. José saw to the solution to these problems lay in the pages of [[File:LeoXIII.png]] ''Rerum novarum'' and other distributist authors. In 1955, he selected five young people to set up the first company of the co-operative and industrial beginning of the [[File:Mondragon.png]] Mondragón Corporation. The corporation has grown to an organization that employs over 100,000 people in Spain, has extensive international holdings.