The thesis of the book is that the Socialist movement does not lead to Socialism. This is partly because of compromise and cowardice; but partly also because men have a dim indestructible respect for property, even in its disgusting disguise of modern monopoly. Therefore, instead of the intentional result, Socialism, we shall have the unintentional […]
The many men so beautiful And they all dead did lie; And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. — S. T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
For it is another example of the human irony that it seems easier to die in battle than to tell the truth in politics. — G. K. Chesterton
It is not the point to put wild and visionary questions about whether the world has been vastly improved by the War 1; whether Utopia or the New Jerusalem have come out of the War; to ask in that apocalyptic fashion what has come out of the War. We have come out of the War, and […]
Labour – They plan increasing active income tax, rejecting passive income tax. Irony: Passive income taxing was among their main policies. Also they call themselves ‘Labour’ party, so they should support ‘labour’, i.e. less tax on active income (work/labour), more tax on passive income (capital gains). Levelling the ground could possibly lead to lower active […]
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy