Regarding Socialism, Chesterton allows that it is “in many ways worthy if the moral dignity of the mind”, but says we have a right to complain that it must also be a destruction of liberty.
“A Socialist Government is one which in its nature does not tolerate any true and real opposition. For there the Government provides everything; and it is absurd to ask a Government to provide an opposition.”
He proceeds to spin out repetitious variations on this theme for awhile.