“… If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.”...

To E. S. P. Haynes...

With the issue of a second edition of this book the author may perhaps be excused for adding, by way of preface, a few words upon the thesis it maintains and the method through which that thesis is tr...

This book is written to maintain and prove the following truth:⁠— That our free modern society in which the means of production are owned by a few being necessarily in unstable equilibrium, it is tend...

Man, like every other organism, can only live by the transformation of his environment to his own use. He must transform his environment from a condition where it is less to a condition where it is mo...

In no matter what field of the European past we make our research, we find, from two thousand years ago upwards, one fundamental institution whereupon the whole of society reposes; that fundamental in...

The process by which slavery disappeared among Christian men, though very lengthy in its development (it covered close upon a thousand years), and though exceedingly complicated in its detail, may be ...

With the close of the middle ages the societies of Western Christendom and England among the rest were economically free. Property was an institution native to the state and enjoyed by the great mass ...

From the historical digression which I have introduced by way of illustrating my subject in the last two sections I now return to the general discussion of my thesis and to the logical process by whic...

Given a capitalist state, of its nature unstable, it will tend to reach stability by some method or another. It is the definition of unstable equilibrium that a body in unstable equilibrium is seeking...

I say that the line of least resistance, if it be followed, leads a capitalist state to transform itself into a servile state. I propose to show that this comes about from the fact that not a distribu...

I propose in this section to show how the three interests which between them account for nearly the whole of the forces making for social change in modern England are all necessarily drifting towards ...

There is an impression abroad among those who propose to expropriate the capitalist class for the benefit of the state, but who appreciate the difficulties in the way of direct confiscation, that by s...

In this last division of my book I deal with the actual appearance of the servile state in certain laws and proposals now familiar to the industrial society of modern England. These are the patent obj...

It is possible to portray a great social movement of the past with accuracy and in detail if one can spare to the task the time necessary for research and further bring to it a certain power of coordi...

Save in this special sense of “collectivist,” the word “socialist” has either no clear meaning, or is used synonymously with other older and better-known words. ↩ The purchasing power of money fell du...