Dorothy Day: On Distributism

On Distributism: An Answer to John Cort
By Dorothy Day
[From The Catholic Worker, December 1948, 1,3.]
[Editor's Note: John Cort, who died at age 92 in 2006, was a Catholic poverty/labor activist, editor at Commonweal and author of Christian Socialism: An Informal History and Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist. "Distributism" is most simply defined [...]

Philip Bogdonoff: A Nonviolent Alternative to War

Civilian-Based Defense: A Short History of a Nonviolent Alternative to War
By Philip Bogdonoff
[First published in 1982, and used now with permission of the author.]
This article briefly documents the history of an alternative, nonviolent defense system which has been under development for several decades. Its purpose is to provide a perspective, not only on the history [...]

Allan Carlson: Excerpts of “Green Rising” Chapter from Third Ways

By Allan C. Carlson
[Editor's Note: This chapter deals with European agrarian history. It is taken from Allan Carlson's latest book, Third Ways, and is used with the kind permission of the publisher, ISI Books.]
Agrarian politics had its roots in romantic views of the organic society. The peasant campaign reaped the harvest of various nineteenth-century movements: [...]

Jeremy Beer: Agrarianism

By Jeremy Beer
AGRARIANISM posits that the practices associated with the agricultural life are particularly—and in some cases uniquely—well-suited to yield important personal, social, and political goods. The precise character of these goods—and the respective roles of government, society, and individuals in procuring them—varies according to which school of agrarian thought one wishes to consider. The [...]