Ideologies / Distributist / Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1870–1953 · France / UK · Writer & MP

Hilaire Belloc

The servile state

Against both monopoly and collectivism.

Economic−26
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Governance+50
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Social−58
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The writer whose 'The Servile State' argued that concentrated capitalism and state socialism alike reduce men to servility — and that widely-held property is the remedy.

social

Catholic traditionalist.

economic

Warned that capitalism and socialism both end in a 'servile state.'

governance

Favoured a guild-like traditional order over central power.

Notable for
  • 'The Servile State'
  • Co-founded distributism
  • Catholic political writing
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