Social Distributism

Social Distributism, or SocDist, sometimes mistakenly referred to as Left Distributism, is an ideological offspring based on Distributism but with more emphasis on social justice, environmentalism, and collectivized forms of labor, and has a unique strategy involving the adoption of crypto-technology to bring about widespread economic and political change. Social Distributism rejects the political notion of a Left-Right dichotomy and therefore rejects the Left's monopoly on social justice and collectivized labor and the Right's monopoly on private property, family values, and cultural tradition. Social Distributism is a syncretic ideology that transcends the traditional political binary and the popular political compass.

He is convinced that the monopolistic bourgeoisie and the ideology of  liberalism are not only oppressing the working masses, but irrationally depleting the Earth's limited natural resources in pursuit of ever-increasing profit. He also believes they are destroying the family, profiting off the degradation of cultures, and purposely sowing political polarization and social conflict to incite the lower and middle classes to fight each other as they distract them from their true enemy - Liberalism.

He believes that the means of production should be distributed as widely as possible to bring about universal property ownership. He also believes that we should de-urbanize and form diverse and unique smaller communities based on shared values, goals, identity, etc including heterogeneous and homogeneous ones. He believes that through breaking up unnecessary monopolies and central banks through the adoption of Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency we can create an alternative market crypto-economy full of small to medium sized businesses allowing for a diversity of cooperatives, privately owned businesses, union companies/trades, entrepreneurs, and public enterprises. SocDist believes that the State should nationalize essential industries such as education, healthcare, transportation, energy, and so on as he believes they should not run on a profit-motive. Some may confuse Social Distributism for being Market Socialist, but of course it is easy to tell the many differences between the two - especially considering the fact that SocDists want universal ownership over the means of production rather than centralizing control into the hands of the State or the capitalist class.

Beginnings
It all started back in 1891 with publication of Pope Leo XIII's papal encyclical, Rerum novarum. The piece discusses the conditions of the contemporary working class and supported the rights of labor to form unions, reaffirmed the right to private property, and criticized both the problems of socialism as it rose to prominence and the problems of unrestricted capitalism which were all too well known in his time. His Holiness set up the bedrock foundations of distributism, but English writer G. K. Chesterton and Anglo-French politician and philosopher Hilaire Belloc, after drawing together the disparate experiences of the various cooperatives and friendly societies in Northern England, Ireland, and Northern Europe, turned distributism into a more coherent and concrete ideology, with works ranging from basic economics through the distributist lens (Economics for Helen) to what makes property special (An Essay on the Restoration of Property) to the importance of decentralization in governmental institutions and productive property (The Servile State) to just summaries of the concepts alone (Outline of Sanity).

The Mondragón Corporation
In 1941, a young Catholic priest named 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 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 Mondragón Corporation. The corporation has grown to an organization that employs over 100,000 people in Spain, has extensive international holdings.

Social Distributism proper
Shortly before the Great Plague that swept the entire world made its way to the United States, Social Distributism was conceived by a lone man surrounded in an sea of political turmoil and social hysteria. After years of forging a radical consciousness and delving deep into political theory - BAM! Social Distributism burst onto the political scene, a fiercely independent and trailblazing ideology that is currently on the rise though mostly on online forums and Discord servers. Social Distributist literature began to be distributed more and more in the year 2021 when the Plague was coming close to a possible end. Social Distributism is still a baby among giants, however, this Herculean ideology might just have what it takes to reshape the political landscape in the 21st century.

Personality and Behavior
Social Distributism sometimes acts like his father Distributism in some ways though he is not as devoted to Catholicism as him and is way more technology savvy. Though SocDist likes to hang around his pals Marxism–Leninism, Fourth Theory, and Market Socialism he doesn't dare let them know that he's also been hanging around Classical Conservatism and Conservative Socialism from time to time.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a ball,
 * 2) Follow the same design directions listed on [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributism's page, but make sure to:
 * 3) Draw a red line instead of an orange one,
 * 4) Draw a light red rose instead of a torch,
 * 5) Draw a yellow star with a light red outline over the middle of the dog,
 * 6) Add the eyes, and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributism - I love you dad, but tone down the Catholicism and learn more about technology.
 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism - I love you mom, still I think you are too centralized and have become too liberal lately.
 * [[File:Marketsoc.png]] Market Socialism - I like you a lot like my... This is becaming Greek mythology
 * [[File:Christsoc.png]] Christian Socialism - You're a good mate, let's talk Dorothy Day and Aquinas all night.
 * Euras.png Fourth Theory - You've given me so much insight into Liberalism, thank you my crazy Slavic wizard uncle.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Distlib.png]] Distributist Libertarianism - Your heart is in the right place, but why do you believe in all that laissez-faire bullshit?
 * [[File:Long.png]] Longism - You are kinda based but you are too much capitalist and too individualist.
 * [[File:corptism.png]] Corporatism- I like your economic ideas but please be less authoritarian.
 * [[File:Libertarian.png]] Libertarianism - Good way but bad way.
 * [[File:Mutalist.png]] Mutualism - My dad likes you, I don't know why.
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - You used to be my best friend, but we've grown apart and you're too centralized for me now.

Enemies

 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism & [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism - 9/5/1945 best day, burn in hell!
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism - Biggest mistake. Must abolish.
 * Libtard.png Liberalism - You created the monster of Modernity and now you must pay.
 * Neoliberal-icon.png Neoliberalism - You're just like Liberalism but a hundred times worse!

Articles

 * What is Social Distributism: An Introduction
 * Social Distributism Explained
 * Points of Unity and the Three Tenets

Online communities

 * [[File:Reddit.png]] r/SocialDistributism