The Servile State

Section I Definitions:--What _wealth_ is and why necessary to man--How produced--The meaning of the words _Capital_, _Proletariat_, _Property_, _Means of Production_--The defini...

We must then, throughout this inquiry, keep strictly to the economic aspect of the case. Only when that is established and when the modern tendency to the re-establishment of sl...

The form of its disappearance is well worth noting. It begins with the establishment as the fundamental unit of production in Western Europe of those great landed estates, commo...

Of the _demesne_ lands, and the power of local administration which they carried with them (a very important feature, as we shall see later), rather more than a quarter were in...

Note the several points of such a state of affairs. You have private ownership; but it is not private ownership distributed in many hands and thus familiar as an institution to...

Those who favour the first course are the Conservatives or Traditionalists. They are men who respect and would, if possible, preserve the old forms of Christian European life. T...

In this way the Socialist whose motive is human good and not mere organisation is being shepherded in spite of himself _away_ from his Collectivist ideal and _towards_ a society...

Substitute for the term "employee" in one of our new laws the term "serf," even do so mild a thing as to substitute the traditional term "master" for the word "employer," and th...

It will occur at once to the reader that in our existing social state the employee will be very grateful for such legislation. One workman cannot recover from another simply bec...

Now this loan is not really made in money, though the terms of it are in money. It is, at the end of a long string of exchanges, nothing more nor less than the loan of the cars,...