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William Cook commented on Gerald Poechman's blog post 'Distributism'
We have had the Cooperative movement in Ontario for decades. There is nothing stopping individuals from working together to achieve "Community" ownership of factories/businesses, the Credit Unions are one example, the UCO is another one…
Feb 21, 2010
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Justin Skultety commented on Gerald Poechman's blog post 'Distributism'
will look into this movement in Spain..Thank you for sharing that! It is much like the cause and effect of creating value out of shortage, by those that have bought in to the assets earlier then those that have not. Good example is diamonds....no…
Feb 10, 2010
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Distributism

Another option to the social/capitalist poles would be distributism - which is the shared ownership of all capital assets, like factories,businesses etc. The common good or 'commons' once owned water, air,sunshine.But now big companies own fresh water, energy, solar roghts, seed patents, technology patents etc. Indirectly they also own food or sustenance rights - that is, if you can't pay, you do without. An example of the kind of ideal I propose, is the Mondragon Co-op movement in Spain. They…See More
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Distributism

Another option to the social/capitalist poles would be distributism - which is the shared ownership of all capital assets, like factories,businesses etc. The common good or 'commons' once owned water, air,sunshine.But now big companies own fresh water, energy, solar roghts, seed patents, technology patents etc. Indirectly they also own food or sustenance rights - that is, if you can't pay, you do without. An example of the kind of ideal I propose, is the Mondragon Co-op movement in Spain.…

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