Abstract:

This article examines the widespread and varied reception of Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State (1912) in Australia from the time of its publication to the mid-twentieth century. Belloc's claim that market capitalism was giving rise to a series of legislative reforms which entrenched the inferior, servile status of the working classes was of particular interest in Australia where innovations such as compulsory industrial arbitration were pioneered. In the 1930s Belloc's ideas inspired the Catholic Action movement, and they were subsequently developed in the debates around post-war reconstruction by a range of figures including the radical professor of philosophy John Anderson.

摘要：

本文考察了希拉莱·贝洛克（Hilaire Belloc）的《奴隶制国家》（The Servile State，1912年）在澳大利亚出版以来到二十世纪中叶的广泛而多样的接受。贝洛克（Belloc）声称，市场资本主义正在引发一系列立法改革，这些立法巩固了工人阶级的下等奴役地位，这在澳大利亚引起了特别的兴趣，在澳大利亚，诸如强制性工业仲裁之类的创新开创了先河。贝洛克的思想在1930年代激发了天主教行动运动的灵感，后来在围绕战后重建的辩论中得到了包括哲学激进教授约翰·安德森（John Anderson）在内的一系列人物的发展。