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  • It was to the thought of Pesch and his disciples that Pope Pius XI turned to in composing his monumental encyclical Quadragesimo Anno (1931), and it is from Pesch that John Paul II has taken many of the ideas of his own social encyclicals, including the idea of man as the subject of work, of man's dominion over the world as founded on his exercise of work, and even the key term "solidarism" (solidarity).

    A Giant Among Catholic Economists 2007

  • Τhat can be done through a progressive political agenda which will fortify the vested rights of social welfare state and solidarism, along with the reinforcement of investment for jobs and skills.

    European Union: A Progressive Agenda Is Needed 2009

  • The systems that each offered in place of capitalism, distributism by Chesterton, solidarism by Pesch, have different emphases, but more similarities than differences.

    G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

  • Considered overall, solidarism is the social system which brings to proper expression the solidaristic bond among people as such and as members of the natural communities - the family and the state - i.e., in accordance with the specific nature of each community.

    G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

  • And even though Heinrich Pesch was a trained economist and a German to boot, solidarism is not a rigid scheme, an a priori academic abstraction which he would impose on the real world.

    G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

  • One may say the key factor in Pesch's solidarism is a factor that also appears in distributism, though not as much emphasized there.

    G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

  • They are hardly aware that the economic arrangements advocated by the popes are neither those of socialism nor of free-market capitalism, and if someone were to tell them about distributism or solidarism, they would likely reply that since they do not presently exist, or perhaps never existed, they need not be taken seriously.

    Is the Acton Institute a Genuine Expression of Catholic Social Thought? 2008

  • This factor is the formal establishment of organizations, especially occupational organizations, which under solidarism will bear a large role in economic regulation.

    G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

  • Even, here, however, I read him to advocate no more than a kind of liturgically-tinged voluntary solidarism as a way of restraining some of the harmful effects of the “creative destruction” so typical of the state-capitalist marketplace.

    When you reach the bottom of the barrel, start digging. 2008

  • And a few pages later he writes what could easily be a distributist motto: "While socialism calls for the abolition of private ownership of the means of production, the motto of solidarism is: increase the number of owners!"

    G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

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