THERE are but three social arrangements which can replace Capitalism: Slavery, Socialism, and Property. I may imagine a mixture of any two of these three or of all the three, but each is a dominant type, and from the very nature of the problem no fourth arrangement can be devised. The problem turns, remember, upon the control of the means of production. Capitalism means that this control is vested in the hands of few, while political freedom is the appanage of all. If this anomaly cannot endure, from its insecurity and from its own contradiction with its presumed moral basis, you must either have a transformation of the one or of the other of the two elements which combined have been found unworkable. These two factors are (1) The ownership of the means of Production by a few; (2) The Freedom of all. To solve Capitalism you must get rid of restricted ownership, or of freedom, or of both. ~H. Belloc: The Servile State. • The Servile State, by Belloc. Free download tinyurl/kbzvyjx • The Servile State, by Dorothy Day. The Catholic Worker Movement tinyurl/nxuz2de
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