Socialism

'What's wrong with the world' discusses socialism first in part I, but it comes back in part V. I will select a few quotes that Chesterton makes on the subject in part I:

My main contention is that, whether necessary or not, both Industrialism and Collectivism have been accepted as necessities - not as naked ideals or desires. [-] Nobody likes the Marxian school; it is endured as the only way of preventing poverty. [-] I do not propose to prove here that Socialism is a poison; it is enough if I maintain that it is a medicine and not a wine. 

In part V, I encountered Chesterton's idea of Distributism for the first time:

The thing to be done is nothing more nor less than the distribution of the great fortunes and the great estates. We can now only avoid Socialism by a change as vast as Socialism. If we are to save property we must distribute property, almost as sternly and sweepingly as did the French Revolution. If we are to preserve the family we must revolutionize the nation.