The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc — Read

This failure original in England -- The story of the decline from distributive property to capitalism -- The economic revolution of the sixteenth century -- The confiscation of monastic land -- What might have happened had the state retained it -- As a fact that land is captured by an oligarchy -- England is capitalist before the advent of the industrial revolution -- Therefore modern industry, proceeding from England, has grown in a capitalist mould.

With the close of the middle ages the societies of Western Christendom and England among the rest were economically free.