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Tables of Contents for Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
The Origins of Political Ideologies
1
20
The Cave: The Illusion and the Reality of Education
2
7
What Is Ideology?
4
1
Ideology's Distinguishing Features
5
4
Mass Movements
9
11
Leadership Roles
11
1
Why Study Ideologies?
11
5
The Competition for Hearts and Minds
16
1
Why Unpopular Ideas?
17
1
Mill on Toleration
18
1
Become a ``True Believer''
19
1
Suggested Readings
20
1
Individualistic (Market) Liberalism
21
27
Preliberal Society and the Rise of Liberalism in Religion and Science
22
16
Luther, Bacon, and Descartes
25
2
Individualistic Roots of Liberalism
27
5
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
32
6
Hobbes and Locke Reconsidered
38
2
Self-Interest Motivation
39
1
Liberalism Becomes Liberal Democracy
40
7
Conservatism
42
5
Suggested Readings
47
1
Liberalism in the United States
48
39
The American Context: ``Born Equal''
49
3
Participation: A Basic Value
51
1
James Madison and the Constitution of 1787
52
5
Madison's View of Humanity
54
1
The Problem of Factions
55
2
Madisonian Politics: Ambition Counteracting Ambition
57
8
Restraints on Majority Tyranny
58
2
Control Through Representation
60
2
Control Through Institutions
62
1
Other Devices of Control
63
2
Madison's Remedy: Liberal or Liberal Democratic?
65
5
Criticisms of Madison's System
66
1
Madison's View of Suffrage
67
3
The Rise of the Imperial Presidency
70
1
The Rise of Majoritarian Liberalism
70
4
Avoiding Instability and Revolution
71
2
Majoritarianism in the British Tradition
73
1
Majoritarian Liberal Democracy in America
74
3
The Tension Between Liberty and Equality
75
2
Elite Theory in Modern Liberal Thought
77
7
Power-Elite Analysis
79
2
Normative Democratic Elitism
81
2
The ``Irony of Democracy''
83
1
John Rawls: A Contract for Justice
84
2
Suggested Readings
86
1
Liberalism: Alternative Visions
87
26
Rousseau's State of Nature
88
8
The Social Contract
92
4
Jefferson's Self-Evident Truths
96
10
Jeffersonian Government
97
3
Property: Economic and Political Freedom
100
1
Happiness: The Ultimate Good
101
1
Jefferson's View of Humanity
102
2
Jeffersonian Politics
104
2
John Dewey and the Liberal Tradition
106
5
Economics and the Common Man
110
1
Final Thoughts on Liberal Democracy
111
1
Suggested Readings
112
1
Marxism
113
30
Marx's Life
114
4
Marx's Writing and the ``Real'' Marx
117
1
Hegel's Philosophy and Politics
118
6
Transforming Logic
120
1
Hegel on Labor
121
2
Hegel's Political Theory
123
1
Critics of Hegel: Feuerbach and Marx
124
6
Marx on the Human Condition
125
5
History and the Development of Capitalism
130
5
The Progress of Humanity
133
1
Marx's View of the Bourgeois Class
134
1
The Capitalist Economic System: Its Decline and Fall
135
7
The Surplus Value of Labor
137
1
Increasing Profits at Worker Expense
137
2
Beyond Capitalism
139
3
Suggested Readings
142
1
Marxism and Leninism
143
20
The Divisions within Marxism---Peaceful or Violent Revolution?
144
4
Marxism of the Center
145
1
Marxism of the Right
146
1
Marxism of the Left
147
1
The Readiness of the Proletariat
147
1
Twentieth-Century Russia
148
1
Lenin's Life
149
3
Lenin's Years in Exile
150
2
Three Themes from Leninism
152
3
Revolutionary Leadership and the Party
152
2
The Doctrine of Permanent Revolution
154
1
The State and Revolution
155
4
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
156
3
The Theory of Imperialism
159
3
Wars of National Liberation
161
1
Suggested Readings
162
1
Marxian Praxis: The Soviet Experiment
163
26
Stalin's Rise to Power
164
5
Stalin's Life
166
1
Lenin's Distrust of Stalin
167
2
Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism
169
4
The World's First Totalitarian State
170
1
Interests of the Soviet State Come First
171
1
The Problems of Directing World Revolution
172
1
Soviet Marxism After Stalin
173
6
Denunciation of Stalin
175
1
Changes in the International Movement
176
2
The Doctrine of Peaceful Coexistence
178
1
Perestroika
179
8
Boris Yeltsin and Post-Soviet Marxism
185
2
Suggested Readings
187
2
Chinese Praxis: The Political Thought of Mao Zedong
189
22
Chinese Marxism
190
5
The Life of Mao Zedong
191
1
Imperialism and Mao's Rural Strategy
192
3
China's Path to Socialism
195
3
Mao on Contradiction
196
2
The PRC and the USSR
198
3
Revisionists and ``Paper Tigers''
200
1
Mao Zedong as a Symbol
201
2
China After Mao
203
7
The Rise of Deng Xiaoping
204
3
The Fall of Deng Xiaoping
207
1
Concluding Thoughts
208
2
Suggested Readings
210
1
Fascism
211
20
Evolution of the Doctrine
215
2
Benito Mussoline
215
2
Characteristics of Fascism: The Nation-State, Anti-Liberalism, Anti-Bolshevism, Corporativism
217
7
The Nation-State
218
1
Anti-Liberalism
219
2
Anti-Bolshevism
221
1
Corporativism
222
2
National Goals, Elitism, and Leadership
224
6
Fascism and Race
227
1
Fascist Traits
228
2
Suggested Readings
230
1
National Socialism
231
19
German Romanticism
232
4
Emotionalism versus Rationalism
234
2
Racism
236
5
Influence of Richard Wagner
237
1
Emphasis on Aryan Leadership
238
2
The Struggle Between Aryans and Jews
240
1
Adolf Hitler: Race, Leadership, and the National-Socialist State
241
7
Mystical Exchange of Spiritual Energy
244
1
Use of Propaganda
245
1
Racist Internationalism
246
2
Suggested Readings
248
2
Theopolitics and Islamism
250
39
The Islamic Revival
251
33
The Abrahamic Monotheistic Background
253
4
Basic Beliefs and Values of Islam
257
2
Politics and Struggle(Jihad) in Early Islam
259
2
Leadership and Authority after Muhammad
261
2
The Growth of Islam
263
3
Theopolitics and Modern Ideology
266
2
Reasons for Islamist Resurgence
268
7
Puritanical and Reformist Tendencies
275
4
Revolutionary, Participatory, and Socialization Strategies
279
5
Comparative Ideological Reflections and the Question of Islamic ``Totality''
284
3
Suggested Readings
287
2
Ideological Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
289
12
Some Thouthts Reconsidered: Liberalism's Challenge
291
3
Competing Ideological Claims
293
1
Shadows of Things That Will (or Could) Be: Some Final Thoughts
294
5
Suggested Readings
299
2
Index
301