Utopia of Usurers (Chesterton - paperback)

Author: G. K. Chesterton

ISBN: 9781951319670

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

In Utopia of Usurers, G. K. Chesterton takes to task the theoretical and practical fallout of laissez-faire capitalism. As Chesterton argues in The Superstition of Divorce, "Capitalism, of course, is at war with the family. It desires its victims to be individuals, or (in other words) to be atoms. For the word atom, in its clearest meaning (which is none too clear) might be translated as 'individual.' If there be any bond, if there be any brotherhood, if there be any class loyalty or domestic discipline . . . these individualists will redistribute it in the form of individuals; or in other words smash it to atoms."