The Servile State eBook Hilaire Belloc
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The Serville State has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to produce a third thing different from either - the servile state, today commonly called the welfare state.
The Servile State eBook Hilaire Belloc
Belloc effectively explains the alternative economic theory called Distributism and the flaws in Capitalism & Socialism / Collectivism / Communism. He carefully walks the line of being technical but accessible to non-economists. He uses historical anecdotes and analogies to make his points clear.There are a lot of non-obvious details that must be considered to describe an alternative to capitalism. Too many things we assume about how the world works are optional and must be questioned to develop a comprehensive replacement. Hillaire Belloc was a friend and fellow conspirator of the noted philosopher and humorist G.K. Chesterton, who wrote on the same subject in "What's Wrong with the World" and "The Outline of Sanity." Those books deal with more of the details of why our current systems fail to provide a stable and long-term option for human society.
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The Servile State eBook Hilaire Belloc Reviews
I feel that we are stuck between heartless employers and the socialist left. This book provides a way out. What the book lacks is a strategy of how to achieve the third way. This book should be read by everyone who wants to change society for the better but rejects solutions from both the left and the right.
a too bitter pill.
The arguments presented here you won't hear in many other places. It is basically an argument that a centralisation of Government and capital will lead to a society of servitude. Yes, Hillare asserts that Capitalism and Socialism will lead to this servitude. To paraphrase his arguments both systems depower individuals. Hence both systems will lead to those individuals being subservient to the needs of the economically rich or the state. He argues instead that land ownership should stay amongst family groups and local guilds.
I can see a point to his arguments and I can agree with allot of what he says. But I don't know if I can agree with every interpretation he has on history or his solutions.
The Servile State is perhaps Belloc's most complete exposition of his theory of the various possible forms of political economy. Belloc argues that Western Civilization was first founded on a servile economy, where a very small group of men owned the land, labor, and the capital necessary for production. Yes, they owned the labor. Hence, the appelation, servile. Belloc then argues that Western Civilization gradually became, from this servile state, a distributive political economy. By this, Belloc meant that ownership was widespread among free men. Belloc argues quite convincingly that this is the natural state of man. And it is certainly the state of Western Civilization when the predominat influence on civilization was the Mystical Body of Christ, His Holy Church. Belloc argues that this state of affairs came to be changed with the Reformation, what he, in other books, has styled the "shipwreck of civilization". Focusing on England, in particular, Belloc proves that a small, landed aristocracy became overwhelmingly powerful in this "rising of the rich against the poor" and, later, established the inherently unstable capitalist society.
Writing in 1912, Belloc held that the capitalistic society could not endure in its then present form. Looking back, it is how remarkable how prophetic was his vision. He argued that the collectivist form of socialism was, in essence, a chimera. Further, he set forth that the decayed capitalist state would ultimatley revert to a servile status.
As we look about us in 2008, it is truly striking how many of the features of the servile state are upon us. One factor that Belloc did not emphacize so much, but that is also dispositive of our current situation is the crushing impact of debt. Acknowledging that point, we can say that Belloc's book is remarkably prophetic, beautifully written, as are all of his works, and still tremendously important. Pick up this important little book. Give it a good and thoughtful read. And be richly blessed by the experience.
In our barbaric past, we were free individuals. We had only that which we could find or produce, and defend. As we became more social, those who had much, provided a means of sustenance for those who had little in return for which those who had little provided labor that annually renewed and increased the wealth of those who had much.
Over time, there have been many changes. The earliest of these changes were provided by the generosity of the 'haves' to the 'have not'. The Lords or Squires who had within themselves the capacity to require so much of the serfs that the serfs might only barely exist, in some cases, saw fit to accept less and allow the serfs to retain more. This allowed the serfs to rise from serfdom by forming guilds and other forms of cooperative ownership that allowed each of them to prosper more greatly as part of a collective group than they could have hoped to do individually and to attain the capacity to own a means of producing wealth. Over the centuries, this trend has continued in one form or another until reaching the model of capitalism.
Capitalism has prospered, but at a cost. That cost has been the loss of stability. This loss of stability has given way to still more changes in the system that now appear to bind it towards a return to a state of servitude. According to the author, this servitude is something that will be accepted by both, the business owners and the workers. In fact, they will cooperatively work toward its implementation. He indicates that among the earliest evidences toward the transition will be minimum wage laws. Not bad for a 1912 publication. He goes on to describe something that I think we find today in so-called "Work for Welfare" policies.
This book is something I have been watching unfold in my lifetime of 61 years. I find the author's comments at the end of the book to be thought-provoking. It's a short, comfortable read. One that I think is well worth the time and energy. It provides yet another framework for understanding some of the more complex economic relationships of our lifetimes.
Belloc effectively explains the alternative economic theory called Distributism and the flaws in Capitalism & Socialism / Collectivism / Communism. He carefully walks the line of being technical but accessible to non-economists. He uses historical anecdotes and analogies to make his points clear.
There are a lot of non-obvious details that must be considered to describe an alternative to capitalism. Too many things we assume about how the world works are optional and must be questioned to develop a comprehensive replacement. Hillaire Belloc was a friend and fellow conspirator of the noted philosopher and humorist G.K. Chesterton, who wrote on the same subject in "What's Wrong with the World" and "The Outline of Sanity." Those books deal with more of the details of why our current systems fail to provide a stable and long-term option for human society.
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