by Chris Alexion, Copyright December 15, 2006, all rights reserved. 300 views
In my post "The New Equality," I quoted Chesterton on the problems with socialism. But lest capitalism escape unscathed, consider GKC's follow-up. (Which is similar to my post here.)
"Capitalism is a corrupt prison. That is the best that can be said for Capitalism. But it is something to be said for it; for a man is a little freer in that corrupt prison than he would be in a complete prison. As a man can find one jailer more lax than another, so he could find one employer more kind than another; he has at least a choice of tyrants. In the other case he finds the same tyrant at every turn. Mr. Shaw and other rational Socialists have agreed that the State would be in practice government by a small group. Any independent man who disliked that group would find his foe waiting for him at the end of every road."
- G. K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
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