The servile state by Belloc Hilaire 1870-1953

Author:Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Economic history, Social history, Socialism, Collectivism, Industrial policy, Great Britain -- Economic policy
Publisher: London ; Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis
Published: 1912-08-16T05:00:00+00:00

SECTION SEVEN

SOCIALISM IS THE EASIEST

APPARENT SOLUTION OF

THE CAPITALIST CRUX

SECTION THE SEVENTH

SOCIALISM THE EASIEST APPARENT SOLUTION OF THE CAPITALIST CRUX

I SAY THAT THE LINE OF LEAST RESIST-ance,if it be followed, leads a Capitalist State to transform itself into a Servile State.

I propose to show that this comes about from the fact that not a Distributive but a Collectivist solution is the easiest for a Capitalist State to aim at, and that yet, in the very act of attempting Collectivism, what results is not Collectivism at all, but the servitude of the many, and the confirmation in their present privilege of the few ; that is, the Servile State.

Men to whom the institution of slavery is abhorrent propose for the remedy of Capitalism one of two reforms.

Either they would put property into the hands of most citizens, so dividing land and capital that a determining number of families in the State were possessed of the means of production; or they would put those means of production into the hands of the political officers of the community, to be held in trust for the advantage of all.

The first solution may be called the attempted establishment of the DISTRIBUTIVE STATE. The second may be called the attempted establishment of the COLLECTIVIST STATE.

Those who favour the first course are the Conser-105

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