Abstract

In their writings on distributism, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc offer many practical suggestions as to how we can work to bring about a more human economy. In this paper, I do two things. In the first part, I discuss four ways Chesterton and Belloc characterize distributism as a social doctrine. In the second and main part of the paper, I catalog the many ways that Chesterton and Belloc think we can, both individually and collectively, begin to act in defiance of capitalist and socialist economic tyranny and, having restored something of a more human economy in a region, protect it.