Today's Isms /
Ebenstein, William
Today's Isms / William Ebenstein. - 2nd edition - Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., ©1958. - ix, 243 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes index
Part 1: The totalitarian way of life -- 1. Totalitarian communism -- The economic interpretation of history -- Dynamics of social change -- Revolution the only way out -- Economic contradictions of capitalism -- The role of the salariat -- Lenin's contribution to the theory of communism -- Communist doctrine and policy today -- Social - economic changes under communism -- Sources of strength in communism -- Sources of weakness in communism -- Revolts against soviet communism -- The issue of communism -- Part 2: The democratic way of life -- 3. Democratic capatlism -- Two conceptions of democracy -- Democracy as a way of life -- Conditions of political democracy -- Psychological roots of democracy -- Individual freedom and national security -- Classical capatalism -- Stresses and strains in modern capatalism -- Sources od strength of capatalist democracy -- Why socialism has not spread in the united states -- The welfare state -- 4. Democratic socialism -- Historical background -- Robert owen: Capatlist- socialist -- Socialism and democracy -- Socialism versus communism -- Elements of socialist thought and policy -- Problems of nationalization -- The impasse of socialism today
Acc#3496
COMMUNISM
FASCISM
SOCIALISM
CAPITALISM
COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTS
COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
PN 18 / E25 1958
Today's Isms / William Ebenstein. - 2nd edition - Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., ©1958. - ix, 243 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes index
Part 1: The totalitarian way of life -- 1. Totalitarian communism -- The economic interpretation of history -- Dynamics of social change -- Revolution the only way out -- Economic contradictions of capitalism -- The role of the salariat -- Lenin's contribution to the theory of communism -- Communist doctrine and policy today -- Social - economic changes under communism -- Sources of strength in communism -- Sources of weakness in communism -- Revolts against soviet communism -- The issue of communism -- Part 2: The democratic way of life -- 3. Democratic capatlism -- Two conceptions of democracy -- Democracy as a way of life -- Conditions of political democracy -- Psychological roots of democracy -- Individual freedom and national security -- Classical capatalism -- Stresses and strains in modern capatalism -- Sources od strength of capatalist democracy -- Why socialism has not spread in the united states -- The welfare state -- 4. Democratic socialism -- Historical background -- Robert owen: Capatlist- socialist -- Socialism and democracy -- Socialism versus communism -- Elements of socialist thought and policy -- Problems of nationalization -- The impasse of socialism today
Acc#3496
COMMUNISM
FASCISM
SOCIALISM
CAPITALISM
COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTS
COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
PN 18 / E25 1958