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The Servile State

Hilaire Belloc

Philosophyabout 4 h 45 min of listening

Hilaire Belloc’s thesis that the capitalist state breeds a collectivist theory which, in action, produces something utterly different from collectivism: the Servile State.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Epigraph
  3. Dedication
  4. Preface to Second Edition
  5. Introduction
  6. I: Definitions
  7. II: Our Civilisation Was Originally Servile
  8. III: How the Servile Institution Was for a Time Dissolved
  9. IV: How the Distributive State Failed
  10. V: The Capitalist State in Proportion as It Grows Perfect Grows Unstable
  11. VI: The Stable Solutions of This Instability
  12. VII: Socialism Is the Easiest Apparent Solution of the Capitalist Crux
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  1. VIII: The Reformers and Reformed Are Alike Making for the Servile State
  2. Appendix on “Buying-Out”
  3. IX: The Servile State Has Begun
  4. Conclusion
  5. Endnotes
  6. Colophon
  7. Uncopyright

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