Private Property Rights: An environment that enables a person to earn a living without having to rely on the use of the property of others to do so.

A Guild-like labor system: Mixed class syndicates composed of both employers and employees cooperating for mutual benefit, thereby promoting class collaboration. This is diametrically opposed to the current union system that builds and thrives upon class interest and class struggle.

Credit unions: In preference over private banks and nationalized banking systems with some government oversight in the area of anti-trust regulation; this system particularly espouses the elimination of the banking practice of usury.

Anti-trust legislation: Distributism embraces the idea that too much capitalism means too few capitalists, not too many; therefore it seeks legislation to prevent the concentration of market power in a given industry into too-few hands. The assumption behind this legislation is the idea that having economic activity decentralized among many different industry participants is better for the economy than having one or a few large players in an industry.

The Family: Distributism sees the family of two married parents - one man and one woman - and their child or children as the central and primary social unit of human ordering and the principal unit of a functioning distributist society and civilization.

Subsidiarity: Distributism puts great emphasis on this principle which holds that no larger unit (whether social, economic, or political) should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit. Subsidiarity is one of the Four Great Ideas I explore further here.

Social Security: Distributism favors the elimination of social security on the basis that it further alienates man by making him more dependent on and subject to the government.

Society of Artisans: Distributism promotes an emphasis on small business, promotion of local culture, and favoring of small production over capitalistic mass production.  Not promoting a return to pre-Industrial Revolution living and conditions, but a more localized ownership of production of manufactured goods and food.

Political Order: Distributism is a widely encompassing concept inside of which any number of interpretations and perspectives thrive. Distributism works only in a political systems that are characterized by widespread ownership of productive property.

War: Distributists apply Just War Theory in determining whether a war should be fought or not.