The Servile State - Rilegato

Belloc, Hilaire

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1602068682 ISBN 13: 9781602068681

Casa editrice: Cosimo Inc, 2007

Riassunto

I tiswrittentomaintain the thesis that industrial society as we know it will tend towards the re-establishment of slavery The sections into which the book will be divided SECTION I DEFINITIONS :W hat wealth is and why necessary to man How produced The meaning of the words Capital, Proletariat,P roperty,M eans of Production The definition of the Capitalist State The definition of the SERVILE STATE What it is and what it is not The re-establishment of status in the place of contract That servitude is not a question of degree but of kind Summary of these definitions page 11 SECTION II OUR CIVILISATION WAS ORIGINALLY SERVILE :T he Servile institution in Pagan antiquity I ts fundamental character A Pagan society took it for granted The institution disturbed by the adventof the Christian Church Pa Se1 SECTION III How THE SERVILE INSTITUTION WAS FOR A TIME DISSOLVED :T he subconscious effect of the Faith in this matter The main elements of Pagan economic society The Villa The transformation of the agricultural slave into the Christian serf Next into the Christian peasant The corresponding erection throughout Christendom of the DISTRIBU- TIVE STATE It is nearly complete at the close of the Middle A ges It was not machinery that lost us our freedom, it was the loss of a free mind .
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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cosimo Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1602068682
• ISBN 13: 9781602068681
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208
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