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The Sources and Uses of Distributism: A Roman Catholic's View of Anglo-Catholic Genius

Michael Black · Journal of Inklings Studies 3(1), 55-74 · 2013

Type: Article
Author: Michael Black
Identifier: DOI 10.3366/ink.2013.3.1.4
Reliability notes: Passages on Rerum Novarum were read in the author's online copy; see the journal abstract for the published argument.

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EstablishedChesterton and Belloc developed distributism in the early 20th century; Belloc's The Servile State (1912) is the closest thing to an originating manifesto, and a Distributist League existed in the UK from 1926.DisputedBlack argues that Rerum Novarum, though often cited as distributism's foundation, contains no limit on enterprise size and no large-scale redistribution of wealth, and locates distributism's matrix in English Christian socialist and Anglican social theology.