Utopia of Usurers

<p>In <em>Utopia of Usurers</em> G.K. Chesterton takes to task the theoretical and practical fallout of laissez-faire capitalism. The book invites all comers to reconsider their ideological prejudices concerning conservative love of the free market. As Chesterton argues in The Superstition of Divorce:</p><p>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.</p><p>Either our times are ripe for <em>Utopia of Usurers</em> or <em>Utopia of Usurers</em> is ripe for our times.</p>