I’ve been thinking about Distributism as a post-growth political economy since reading Hillaire Belloc’s The Serville State a few year ago. In the article below, @ChrisSmaje (Author of #ASmallFarmFuture) outlines four commitments of a possible neo-distributist movement.
“These are the four commitments ….as the essence of a neo-distributist movement. First, the autonomy-in-community of local livelihood-making, grounded in distributed access to private land and commons. Second, political and economic subsidiarity. Third, an emphasis on work as a spiritual value in creating a decent local livelihood; and fourth, an emphasis on the household as a unit of joint production and consumption”
I’m researching narratives of post-growth land-based livelihoods, and it will be interesting using Fisher’s tests of narrative probability and fidelity how much the narratives mentioned above are recognizable or predictable for those working in the field today.
James T Jones 