Chesterton’s social philosophy is called Distributism. By this name, he meant that a free people must belong to a property-owning democracy. Distributists wanted property distributed as widely as possible in order to guarantee political liberty. In a truly free nation, they believed citizens must be as independent as possible of both governments and of large corporations. For that reason, Distributism is opposed both to State Socialism and to Monopoly Capitalism. In a sense, Distributism belongs to the tradition somewhat misleadingly named "Philosophical Anarchism." Dorothy Day, like Chesterton, belonged to this tradition, and she was not afraid to describe herself as a “Catholic Anarchist.”