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A contrast between the reformer making for distribution and the reformer making for socialism (or collectivism) -- The difficulties met by the first type -- He is working against the grain -- The second is working with the grain -- Collectivism a natural development of capitalism -- It appeals both to capitalist and proletarian -- None the less we shall see that the collectivist attempt is doomed to fail and to produce a thing very different from its object -- To wit, the servile state.
I say that the line of least resistance, if it be followed, leads a capitalist state to transform itself into a servile state.