The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
Hilaire BellocWhen the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.
Hilaire BellocWherever the Catholic sun doth shine, Thereโs always laughter and good red wine. At least Iโve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
Hilaire BellocThe terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.
Hilaire Belloc