Chapter IV: Section V

The Capitalist State in Proportion as It Grows Perfect Grows Unstable:--It can of its nature be but a transitory phase lying between an earlier and a later stable state of society--The two internal strains which render it unstable--_(a)_ The conflict between its social realities and its moral and legal basis--_(b)_ The insecurity and insufficiency to which it condemns free citizens--The few possessors can grant or withhold livelihood from the many non-possessors--Capitalism is so unstable that it dares not proceed to its own logical conclusion, but tends to restrict competition among owners, and insecurity and insufficiency among non-owners.