In 1891 Pope Leo XIII promulgated Rerum novarum, in which he addressed the "misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class" and spoke of how "a small number of very rich men" had been able to "lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself".
Chesterton in his 1910 book What's Wrong with the World.
Douglas (1879–1952), a British engineer, who wrote a book by that name in 1924.
In the United States in the 1930s, distributism was treated in numerous essays by Chesterton, Belloc and others in The American Review, published and edited by Seward Collins.
It survived almost 70 years until 1989. === Big Society === The Big Society was the flagship policy idea of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto.
Its practical implementation in the form of local cooperatives has been documented by Race Mathews in his 1999 book Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society. == Political spectrum == The position of distributists when compared to other political philosophies is somewhat paradoxical and complicated (see triangulation).
The Guardian, 20 July 2009. == External links == The Distributist Review Anti-capitalism Economic ideologies Political theories Pope Leo XIII Power sharing Syncretic political movements
It survived almost 70 years until 1989. === Big Society === The Big Society was the flagship policy idea of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto.
Big Society gradually declined as an instrument of government policy over the course of the 2010–2015 government. == Notable distributists == === Historical === Herbert Agar Hilaire Belloc L.
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