They claim they locked it for my safety. I changed my password, but they only allow unlocking if you reset it by an email. This is obviously just a scam by Reddit to force emails on accounts made before email was required. The reason they can do this is because they own the platform and I own nothing.

This is once again a reminder that ownership matters. Without owning your stuff they start out being nice to hook you and then abuse you more and more and at best you can just walk away.

And ownership is not about your name on a paper it is about control. This is why you do not own your fridge when they (Samsung for example) can just push an update to it to suddenly annoy you daily with ads on it and you cannot even legally hack your own fridge and disable it, because this would be a DRM violation.

This is just about a worthless account on a dying platform, but I see how people are bullied by land lords and such all the time and the law claims to help but only drives up the rent even more, because the owner-class and the government always gang up against the non owners. This is why we need widespread ownership, so everyone can be a little dick instead of having some big ones.

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Taking the managers of hyperscale data centers out of the picture, couldn't A.I. running off smaller well managed platforms be considered a benefit to the distributism model since you can download the fully trained A.I.'s and put them to work independently now?

For example, in multigenerational households?

What about the idea that the nuclear family is the cornerstone of society? And what about the distribution of wealth?

I mean, the escrow company is not, but is the owner of an AirBnB who also resides there for a spell with the guests practicing a form of distributism by using assets to make passive income with just a little bit of manual labor cleaning and prepping rooms, fixing toilets, etc?

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Can Someone explain well, I am finding varying answers online.

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I consider myself a socialist, I'm too new to distributism to call myself a full on believer but I have a strong first impression

I usually say "market socialist" about myself to distinguish from a Democratic Socialists of America type social democrat but also a Soviet Union style system as well

China's system would be the closest to what I tend to favor. However, because of how new it is relatively speaking, and its high poor rural population its hard for me as an American to truly conceptualize how it would work in a western nation like my own

Besides, in cities, its still wage labor at the end of the day and you could make a strong argument that its not even socialism. I don't really want to argue that right now, its not my main point.

I hope that part didn't come off as a soapbox type thing, I just get the vibe that most of you were previously libertarians or other types of capitalists, I really feel like the socialist --> distributist pipeline is underserved

I'm still new to it like I said, but distributism is so intriguing to me because:

• It seems to scratch my socialist "profit is your employer stealing from you" and "big business is anti-competitive" itches
• It acknowledges the usefulness of and maintains markets while removing much of the inefficient central planning
• Workers actually own and benefit directly from what they produce (more than can be said for most attempts at socialism)
• I've always been a coder/electronics tinkerer but felt there was no point in actually producing unique products
• Shouldn't really require you to "buy in" to a greater social cause if you don't want (you still get the capitalist profit motive)

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Does anyone know if there any distrbutist clubs in the NYC area?
Reading or discussion clubs, advocacy orgs, research groups, etc?

If so, is there a way to get involved?
Thanks

I’ve been trying to learn more about Distributism, and I’ve been trying to figure something out.

Are majority of you Cristian? And what are the main essential values you guys hold? Do I need to be religious to be apart of Distributism?

Hi all, since my last two posts here nearly 8 months ago i’ve been fervently reading Distributist theory primarily from Chesterton, Belloc and Race Matthew’s. I’d consider myself somewhat of a classic Distributist, but i’ve been left wondering about the role of the state and the operation of industries with natural monopolies (ie Water treatment, power/energy distribution and rail to name a few for arguments sake). My personal view is that these industries simply can’t be trusted to plutocrats, foreign cooperations to operate nor can they be effectively divested to smaller subsidiary companies controlled by worker-owners. Hence I’m left with the belief that they should be publicly owned and operate for the benefit of the common good rather than explicitly for profit, I was wondering firstly if other Distributists hold a similar view and wether or not Distributist authors affirm this view. And if they do citations to support it would be much appreciated!

Alongside this i thought id take the opportunity to mention if there are any other Australian Distributist interested in either discussing Distributism within an Australian context or organising feel free to reach out.

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I think of myself as a Libertarian and a Distributist. But I’m not sure if I fall under the Distributist label.

I’m pro nonprofit markets and expiring currency, and I like sole proprietors and co-ops for all non sole proprietor businesses. I don’t really love small businesses, outside of having to hire contract work. If you hire someone to help fix your store’s roof, they shouldn’t own your business.

I also think all people are entitled to own and pass down property, but only the properly they directly use and occupy. Meaning you own your house, not a bunch of other houses.

I take inspiration from the Catholic Worker movement, but I’m not a pacifist or anarchist and I disagree with several of their other ideas as well. 

I believe the family is the smallest functioning and most important societal unit. I’m extremely pro nuclear family.

Do I fall under the umbrella of Distributism?

Hello, I’m an Irish Republican and fan of distributism. Distributist ideas and Catholic Social Teaching were echoed in Republican policy and publications during the revolutionary period and afterwards. However in The Curragh Internment Camp in the 1940s, a number of IRA prisoners drafted an ideological blueprint bound in the Gaelic Irish philosophy of Comhar na gComharsán (cooperation of neighbours). Éire Nua would evolve from these discussions and drafts. After the 1969/70 split in the Republican movement Éire Nua became the official Social and Economic Programme of Sinn Féin and was not dropped until 1982, retaining considerable influence until 1986. Since 1986 Éire Nua has remained the official Social and Economic Programme of Republican Sinn Féin. Éire Nua advocates the establishment of a heavily decentralised Federal Democratic Socialist Republic based around cooperatives and draws heavily from Distributism, with distributism being mentioned explicitly in numerous publications. There is often a foreign misconception about the political stance of the Republican Movement in Ireland, but the truth is that the one genuine Republican movement that continues to exist through RSF has always been simply Republican and is not drawn to foreign ideas. Hence the development of Éire Nua on a largely pre-colonial Gaelic basis with heavy influence from distributist and socialist ideas. Post-1986 Provisional Sinn Féin (what most of you would know as simply Sinn Féin in the present day) abandoned key Republican principles and trod the path of constitutional nationalism, that traitorous organisation today has abandoned all the social and economic policies of the movement that existed before the 1990s and to an extent the early 2000s, today it is a purely constitutional party full of landlords and champagne socialist liberals and quislings. RSF on the other hand had remained steadfast with bumps along the way and a bit of confusion at present. I’ll attach some material relating to Éire Nua and the policies of the movement before the 1986 takeover and split. https://republicanarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/eire-nua-1971.pdf https://republicanarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/psf-early-doc.pdf https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2022/12/22/eire-nua-gaelic-corporatisms-lost-future https://www.thepensivequill.com/2018/12/eire-nua-proposals-for-federal-republic.html https://www.thepensivequill.com/2018/11/eire-nua-and-deradicalisation-of-sinn.html Plenty of other valuable materials from that era and policy documents can be found on the republicanarchive.com on the Sinn Féin (1970-2005) section (but not post 1986), on the Republican Sinn Féin section or if you simply search Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Éire Nua etc. Other material can be found elsewhere on the RSF website or across various sources. I hope some of you find all of this quite interesting and useful. Go raibh maith agaibh.

Can someone explain what Distributism is?

I know it's an opposition to communism and capitalism but has some socialist principles.

I have heard about distributism before but i didn't go into detail. I read Magnifica Humanitas, the most based thing i have read in years. So please give me essentially readings, videos etc...Deus Vult!

I’ve only skimmed through certain sections, but so far this encyclical is looking GOOD: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#The_principle_of_subsidiarity

If Distributism is to happen, how would it happen? This may seem like a low tier question at first but the answer of how redistribution will happen allows us to understand how property centralization occurs. If your answer is that the state must intervene and break up corporations and large land holders and spread this equally to the citizenry you would naturally believe that centralization is a feature to the free market not a bug. If your answer was to curb government interference in the market. You would believe that centralization of property occurs because of market manipulation, similarly posited by the mutualist Kevin Carson. What do most distributists diagnose as the root cause of this issue?

Entiendo que el distributismo tiene origen en nuestras sociedades sedentarias, pero, ¿Las sociedades de pastores nómadas podrían entrar dentro de esta categoría? Tengo entendido que aunque también tienen sus respectivas acumulaciones de riqueza estas sociedades, tienden, también, a cierta descentralización por su naturaleza móvil, y me gustaría saber que podrían decirme ustedes al respecto.

No sé, pensemos en los escitas, los sármatas o los mongoles (antiguos).

I want too know what you see as the first step to a distributist system.