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The Servile State
- By: Hilaire Belloc
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In this 1912 classic, wide-ranging polemicist Hilaire Belloc presents a new economic history of Europe and makes his case for "Distributism", the author’s answer to the instability of capitalism and the stringency of socialism. Belloc outlines the major economic transitions through the history of the West, arguing that the civilization began as servile and dependent upon slavery and only emerged with the advent of the Christian faith. The Middle Ages are highlighted as the optimal condition, marked by a fair distribution of property.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rough narrator
- By jsewell on 02-08-21
- The Servile State
- By: Hilaire Belloc
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
Rough narrator
Reviewed: 02-08-21
The book itself is fine. The reading of it is awful. The narrator often substitutes the wrong word for the one on the page or even adds or omits “un-“ in front of a word, which makes the sentence mean the opposite of the author’s original intention. I listened along with the text, and I’m glad I did. Otherwise I would have misunderstood some of the book at the fault of the narrator’s misreading.
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