TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ebenstein,William
TI  - Today's Isms
AV  - PN 18 E25 1958
PY  - 1958///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, NJ
PB  - Prentice-Hall, Inc.
KW  - COMMUNISM
KW  - FASCISM
KW  - SOCIALISM
KW  - CAPITALISM
KW  - COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTS
KW  - COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
N1  - 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
ER  -