The Servile State Section 7

The Hilaire Belloc Library · Oct 3, 2026 · 16m

In which we observe the gradual decline of the English Crown’s power and the rise of a dominant capitalist oligarchy, as vast estates and wealth concentrate into the hands of a small class, thus dispossessing much of the population and laying the groundwork for modern industrial society. It is shown that the Industrial Revolution arose not from the inherent necessity of new machinery to create proletarian conditions, but from the pre-existing social and economic order that favoured the wealthy few, making this epoch a continuation of earlier injustices rather than a natural or unavoidable…