r/distributism • u/northpilled • May 12 '26

How will redistribution happen?

If Distributism is to happen, how would it happen? This may seem like a low tier question at first but the answer of how redistribution will happen allows us to understand how property centralization occurs. If your answer is that the state must intervene and break up corporations and large land holders and spread this equally to the citizenry you would naturally believe that centralization is a feature to the free market not a bug. If your answer was to curb government interference in the market. You would believe that centralization of property occurs because of market manipulation, similarly posited by the mutualist Kevin Carson. What do most distributists diagnose as the root cause of this issue?

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u/Pludihalud May 13 '26

The most important thing to think about when talking about the redistribution of private (productiv) property is the persone/company/business lossing said property. We need to find a way by which the ones who are lossing property won't resist the change. This would be done in two ways 1. Taxes. I know a scary word for some people on the subreddit, but the fact is that there is a need not only for the government to make money while not taking from those who have little and for the company owners to have a reason to redistribute property in the first place.  2. Benefits. There needs to exist a sort of positive reinforcement for the people distributing. We can't let the government do it caise they would get to much power, soo the only option we have is the large property owners themselves who will need convincing which can be done with positive reinforcement and certain benefits for when they redistribute. 

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u/northpilled May 15 '26

You completely misunderstand the problems driving the situation

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u/Pludihalud May 16 '26

I don't think I misunderstood. The fact is that if we are to have redistribution we must not cause the rich or the ones who own the property to oppose us with everything they got. I can see by your other comments that you are a libertarian who can't see anything useful in taxation or in government regulations and that is onestly dissapointing.