TY - BOOK AU - Belloc,Hilaire TI - The Servile State AV - HC PY - 2021/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Socialism KW - Great Britain -- Economic policy KW - Social history KW - Economic history KW - Industrial policy KW - Collectivism N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Servile_State; Release date is 2021-03-20; an Anonymous Volunteer; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Servile State" by Hilaire Belloc is an economic and political treatise published in 1912. It presents a history of capitalism while critiquing both capitalist and socialist systems. Belloc warns of an emerging totalitarian form he calls the "servile state"—where workers are legally compelled to labor for property owners. He argues capitalism is unstable and transitional, disrupting medieval social structures. Though socialism offers an alternative, Belloc believes its implementation will paradoxically accelerate the return of servility rather than prevent it. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64882 ER -