A Fifty Years Plan

Extract

We all know that Great Britain is suffering from some ill. We are all becoming rather tired of all the examinations of this fact and of all the cures. Generally we find that the “doctors” are only concerned with bolstering up present economic order by removing the more glaring evils. We find Communists and Fascists all opposing capitalism with another form of capitalism in which they will be the capitalists.

Very rarely do we find anyone questioning the fundamental issues on which Great Britain and the Empire have been built.

We know we have lost a great proportion of our export trade, but we hope to recover it. Few of us ask if this is possible.

Now we have a distributist examining the sick—Great Britain, and wisely pointing out the fallacies of the treatment prescribed by other doctors. In the first part of this booklet we find all the causes; “Small minority possessing property and the vast proletarianised majority ...” “The deadly effect of urbanization possesses a profound biological significance.” “Only a minute fraction of the population is engaged in work on the land ...” “England’s industrial monopoly is on the wane ...” “The beginning of a process which will end in England possessing but a fraction of its present population; and of that fraction, half will be mentally deficient ...”