The Servile State - Softcover

Belloc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948231050 ISBN 13: 9781948231053

Verlag: Cavalier Books, 2018

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In his treatise on European economic history (The Servile State, 1912) Hilaire Belloc explores the many failings of the Capitalist system. He explains that Capitalism emerged from the English Reformation, reached its present form during England's Industrial Revolution, and from there was exported to the rest of the world. “It was in England that the Industrial System arose. It was in England that all its traditions and habits were formed; and because the England in which it arose was already a Capitalist England, modern Industrialism, wherever you see it at work to-day, having spread from England, has proceeded upon the Capitalist model.” Belloc also suggests that Capitalism has supplanted another, earlier system, one that had developed throughout Catholic Europe, a system he and his good friend G.K. Chesterton referred to as “Distributism.” “Property was an institution native to the State and enjoyed by the great mass of its citizens. Co-operative institutions, voluntary regulations of labour, restricted the completely independent use of property by its owners only in order to keep that institution intact and to prevent the absorption of small property by great.” “This excellent state of affairs which we had reached after many centuries of Christian development, and in which the old institution of slavery had been finally eliminated from Christendom, did not everywhere survive. In England in particular it was ruined.”

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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was a French-born British historian, essayist, poet, and political thinker. A prominent Catholic intellectual of the early twentieth century, Belloc wrote extensively on European history, religion, economics, and political thought. His historical works-including The Great Heresies-are noted for their clear argument, strong narrative voice, and deep engagement with the religious foundations of Western civilization.

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• Verlag: Cavalier Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1948231050
• ISBN 13: 9781948231053
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114
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