The Servile State

I have always felt that The Servile State was much more significant than we have suspected. -James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was one of the most respected men of his day for his learning, insight, wit & brilliant literary style. Author of over a hundred books & articles, Belloc was a journalist, polemicist, social & political analyst, literary critic, poet & novelist. The Servile State has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to produce a third thing different from either--the servile state, today commonly called the welfare state.