by Belloc · Cluster: History · Catholicism · Europe
Abstract
A political-economy treatise arguing that industrial capitalism, being in unstable equilibrium, is drifting back toward legally enforced compulsory labour — a re-established slavery Belloc names the Servile State. Tracing the dissolution of pagan slavery by the Church, the medieval Distributive State, its wreck at the Reformation, and the failure of both socialist and ‘practical’ reform, he presents Distributism and Collectivism as the only alternatives. A foundational Distributist text.
Capitoli / Chapters
- Synopsis of the Servile State
- Introduction. The Subject of This Book
- Section Two. Our Civilisation Was Originally Servile
Connections
Forms & Genres: Essay, History, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Distributism, Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, Communism, Anti-Industrialism, Freedom and Liberty, Class Conflict, Authority, Social Injustice, Economics Motifs: Chains, Machine, Money and Gold Historical References: Industrial Revolution, Reformation, Catholic Church Settings: England, Industrial City Archetypes: Common Man (2)
Also relevant to: Social Issues · Labour · Reform