Omnipotent Government - Table of Contents
 
 

Preface
Introduction

Part I. The Collapse of German Liberalism

I. German Liberalism

    1. The Ancien Régime and Liberalism
    2. The Weakness of German Liberalism
    3. The Prussian Army
    4. The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia
    5. The "Little German" Program
    6. The Lassalle Episode

II. The Triumph of Militarism

    1. The Prussian Army in the New German Empire
    2. German Militarism
    3. The Liberals and Militarism
    4. The Current Explanation of the Success of Militarism

Part II. Nationalism

III. Etatism

    1. The New Mentality
    2. The State
    3. The Political and Social Doctrines of Liberalism
    4. Socialism
    5. Socialism in Russia and in Germany
    6. Interventionism
    7. Etatism and Protectionism
    8. Economic Nationalism and Domestic Monopoly Prices
    9. Autarky
    10. German Protectionism

IV. Etatism and Nationalism

    1. The Principle of Nationality
    2. The Linguistic Group
    3. Liberalism and the Principle of Nationality
    4. Aggressive Nationalism
    5. Colonial Imperialism
    6. Foreign Investment and Foreign Loans
    7. Total War
    8. Socialism and War

V. Refutation of Some Fallacious Explanations

    1. The Shortcomings of Current Explanations
    2. The Alleged Irrationality of Nationalism
    3. The Aristocratic Doctrine
    4. Misapprehended Darwinism
    5. The Role of Chauvinism
    6. The Role of Myths

Part III. German Nazism

VI. The Peculiar Characteristics of German Nationalism

    1. The Awakening
    2. The Ascendancy of Pan-Germanism
    3. German Nationalism Within an Etatist World
    4. A Critique of German Nationalism
    5. Nazism and German Philosophy
    6. Polylogism
    7. Pan-Germanism and Nazism

VII. The Social Democrats in Imperial Germany

    1. The Legend
    2. Marxism and the Labor Movement
    3. The German Workers and the German State
    4. The Social Democrats Within the German Caste System
    5. The Social Democrats and War

VIII. Anti-Semitism and Racism

    1. The Role of Racism
    2. The Struggle against the Jewish Mind
    3. Interventionism and Legal Discrimination against Jews
    4. The "Stab in the Back"
    5. Anti-Semitism as a Factor in International Politics

IX. The Weimar Republic and its Collapse

    1. The Weimar Constitution
    2. The Abortive Socialization
    3. The Armed Parties
    4. The Treaty of Versailles
    5. The Economic Depression
    6. Nazism and German Labor
    7. The Foreign Critics of Nazism

X. Nazism as a World Problem

    1. The Scope and Limitations of History
    2. The Fallacy of the Concept of "National Character"
    3. Germany's Rubicon
    4. The Alternative

Part IV. The Future of Western Civilization

XI. The Delusions of World Planning

    1. The Term "Planning"
    2. The Dictatorship Complex
    3. A World Government
    4. Planned Production
    5. Foreign Trade Agreements
    6. Monetary Planning
    7. Planning International Capital Transactions

XII. Peace Schemes

    1. Armament Control
    2. A Critique of Some Other Schemes Proposed
    3. The Union of the Western Democracies
    4. Peace in Eastern Europe
    5. The Problems of Asia
    6. The Role of the League of Nations

Conclusion

Index
 
 
 
 
 
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