Chapters (24)
- The Servile State
- Synopsis of the Servile State
- Introduction
- The Subject of This Book
- Section One
- Definitions
- Section Two
- Section Three
- How the Servile Institution Was for a Time Dissolved
- Section Four
- How the Distributive State Failed
- Section Five
- The Capitalist State in Proportion as It Grows Perfect Grows Unstable
- Section Six
- The Stable Solutions of This Instability
- Section Seven
- Socialism Is the Easiest Apparent Solution of the Capitalist Crux
- Section Eight
- The Reformers and Reformed Are Alike Making for the Servile State
- Appendix on “Buying-Out”
- Section Nine
- The Servile State Has Begun
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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