The Reformers and Reformed Are Alike Making for the Servile
State:--There are two types of reformers working along the line of least
resistance--These are the Socialist and the Practical Man--The Socialist
again is of two kinds, The Humanist and the Statistician--The Humanist
would like both to confiscate from the owners and to establish security and
sufficiency for the non-owners--He is allowed to do the second thing by
establishing servile conditions--He is forbidden to do the first--The
Statistician is quite content so long as he can run and organise the
poor--Both are canalised towards the Servile State and both are shepherded
off their ideal Collectivist State--Meanwhile the great mass, the
proletariat, upon whom the reformers are at work, though retaining the
instinct of ownership, has lost any experience of it and is subject to
private law much more than to the law of the Courts--This is exactly what
happened in the past during the converse change from Slavery to
Freedom--Private Law became stronger than Public at the beginning of the
Dark Ages--The owners welcomed the changes which maintained them in
ownership and yet increased the security of their revenue--to-day the
non-owners will welcome whatever keeps them a wage-earning class but
increases their wages and their security without insisting on the
expropriation of the owners.
Appendix on "Buying-Out" An Appendix showing that the Collectivist proposal
to "Buy-Out" the Capitalist in lieu of expropriating him is vain.