“The future of industrial society, and in particular of English society . . . is a future in which subsistence and security shall be guaranteed for the Proletariat, but shall be guaranteed . . . by the establishment of that Proletariat in a status really, though not nominally, servile.”

Theodore Dalrymple quotes Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State and Hayek's The Road to Serfdom as he explores collectivism's infantilizing effect on the British soul.

A must-read.