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Hilaire Belloc

What Hilaire Belloc thinks about government

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Anglo-French writer and historian (1870 to 1953); author of The Servile State.

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5 dated positions, c. 1912, in their own words. Our reading of what Hilaire Belloc has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingServitude is the law compelling some people to labour for others who are not so compelled

    Their wordsIts test is, I repeat, the withdrawal from a man of his free choice to labour or not to labour, here or there, for such and such an object; and the compelling of him by positive law to labour for the advantage of others who do not fall under the same compulsion.

    ↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  3. Our readingThe capitalist state is unstable, a transitory phase between two stable kinds of society

    Their wordsThe Capitalist State is unstable, and indeed more properly a transitory phase lying between two permanent and stable states of society.

    ↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  5. Our readingMost people now fear dismissal more than legal punishment; the capitalist is the Englishman's true master

    Their wordsMost men now fear the loss of employment more than they fear legal punishment, and the discipline under which men are coerced in their modern forms of activity in England is the fear of dismissal. The true master of the Englishman to-day is not the Sovereign nor the officers of State, nor, save indirectly, the laws; his true master is the Capitalist.

    ↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  7. Our readingA capitalist state's collectivist theory produces the servile state, not collectivism

    Their wordsThe Capitalist State breeds a Collectivist Theory which in action produces something utterly different from Collectivism: to wit, the Servile State.

    ↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

  9. Our readingThe Insurance Act follows in every particular the lines of a servile state

    Their wordsWe have of this an example in actual law at this moment. And that law the Insurance Act (whose political source and motive I am not here discussing) follows in every particular the lines of a Servile State.

    ↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book