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Section IV. How the Distributive State Failed:--This Failure Original in

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How the Distributive State Failed:--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.

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