POLITICAL IDEAS: Hilaire Belloc’s The Servile State: a centenary reflection*

This year marks the centennial of Hilaire Belloc’s curious book The Servile State.
Commentators such as Robert Nisbet and Joseph Pearce have labelled his creed as “libertarian”, which implies a respect for free-market capitalism that simply cannot be found in The Servile State. In fact, Belloc deemed “the capitalist state” both “unstable” and deadly. And he went on to advocate the use of state power, particularly the power of differential taxation, …

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