ABSTRACT
The State, then, would become, inter alia, a manufacturing and carrying company on an inconceivably vast scale. And the force of public opinion would always be at work, urging it with irresistible pressure to develop its manufacturing industries and to push its trade, by every possible means and in every possible direction. For the more it produced and exported, the greater would be its imports, and the higher-so men would arguewould be the standard of comfort in every household in the land. Its attempt to push its trade would take many forms. Competition with other exporting countries in neutral markets would be one. The opening-up of new markets would be another. The exploitation of undeveloped countries would be a third. The State would send its financial agents, its commercial travellers, its mining experts, its concession-hunters all over the world. And wherever it sent them, they would meet the financial agents, the commercial travellers, the mining experts, the concession-hunters of Germany, of France, of the United States, of Belgium, of Japan, and the rest.
