Servitude

[1840]  Alexis de Tocqueville,  De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. II, Flammarion, Paris, 1981

-  "Machiavel dit dans son livre du Prince 'qu'il est bien plus difficile de subjuguer un peuple qui a pour chefs un prince et des barons, qu'un nation qui est conduite par un prince et des esclaves'. Mettons, pour n'offenser personne, des fonctionnaires publics au lieu d'esclaves, et nous aurons une grande vérité, fort applicable à nôtre sujet." (p. 347)

[1897]  Piotr Kropotkin,  The State [L'Etat - Son role historique], Freedom Press, London, 1987

-  "In Russia it was the nascent State of the Romanovs that introduced serfdom and soon gave it the characteristics of slavery." (p. 43)

[1913]  Hilaire Belloc,  The Servile State, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 1977

-  "... the memory [in England] of an older condition of economic freedom, and the effect of a hope individuals might entertain of escaping from the wage-earning class, these two factors which might act strongly against  the acceptation of the servile state by that class, have so fallen in value that they offer but little opposition to the third factor in the situation which is making so strongly for the servile state, and which consists in the necessity all men acutely feel for sufficiency and for security." (p. 157)

-  "The future of industrial society, and in particular of English society, left to its own discretion, is a future in which subsistence and security shall be guaranteed at the expense of the old political freedom and by the establishment of that proletariat in a status really, though not nominally, servile." (p. 198)

[1939]  Bruno Rizzi,  Il Collettivismo Burocratico [La Bureaucratisation du Monde], Sugarco Edizioni, Milano, 1977

-  "Il lavoratore della Russia odierna [sotto Stalin] non ha più nulla a che fare con il proletario, assume i caratteri peculiari del servo." (p. 77)

-  "Un solo padrone di servi si è erto nelle piane di Russia : lo stato." (p. 79)

[1951]  Albert Camus,  L'homme révolté, Gallimard, Paris, 1951

-  "Le monde d'aujourd'hui ne peut plus être, apparemment, qu'un monde de maîtres et d'esclaves parce que les idéologies contemporaines, celles qui modifient la face du monde, ont appris de Hegel à penser l'histoire en fonctions de la dialectique maîtrise et servitude." (p. 172)

-  "La vrai passion du XX siècle, c'est la servitude." (p. 288)