CONTENTS

 

 

Foreword………………………………………………………………………….ix

 

PART I:  THE ORIGINS AND UNDERLYING DYNAMIC OF THE LEFT…………………………………………………………………….………..1    

 

                        Chapter 1:  Of Greeks and Utopians……………………………………………………………………….............................................…11

 

                        Chapter 2:  Alienation and the Intellectual…………………………………………………………….............................................……….25

 

                        Chapter 3:  Continuities from Medieval Values………………………………………………………………...........................…………...53

 

                        Chapter 4:  The Intellectual and the Have-Nots…………........................………………………………………………………………….75

 

                        Chapter 5:  European Exportation of Alienation………………………………………................................……………………………….95

 

                        Chapter 6:  The Tone of Modern Man………………………………………......................................…………………………………..103    

 

                        Chapter 7:  Relation to Capitalism……………………………………………………......................................................……….………111

 

PART II:  AN IDEOLOGY OF ALIENATION AND ATTACK

 

                        Chapter 8:  The Focus on Attack………………………………………..................................................………………………………..121

 

                        Chapter 9:  Rejection of Bourgeois Liberalism…………………….....................................………………………………………………125

 

                        Chapter 10:  Relativism as a Means of Attack………………………………………………................................……………………….131

 

                        Chapter 11:  The Worldview of the Left: A Perspective from Down Under..................................................................................................159

 

                        Chapter 12:  Theories of Exploitation……....................................................................................................................................………..163

 

                        Chapter 13:  The Environmentalist Assumption……………....................................……………………………………………………..197

 

PART III:  INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS

 

                        Chapter 14:  Broader Intellectual Orientation……........................................………………………..……………………………………209

 

                        Chapter 15:  The Collectivist Perspective…..................................................…………………………………………………………….219

 

                        Chapter 16:  Views of Human Nature……………….............................................……………………………………………………...225

 

                        Chapter 17:  Some Basic Concepts……………....................................................……………………………………………………...233

 

                        Chapter 18:  Lifestyle and Values…………………..………...................................................…………………………………………249

 

                        Chapter 19:  Women and the Family…………………………...............................................…………….……………………………257

 

            PART IV:  ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS

 

                        Chapter 20:  Critique of the Market System…………….....................................…………………………………………………..….267

 

                        Chapter 21:  Suggested Economic and Political Models…....................…………………………………………………………….….289

 

                        Chapter 22:  Perception of Economic History…………..................................………………………………………………………..309

 

                        Chapter 23:  The New Theocracy……………………….........................................................………………………………………325

 

                        Chapter 24:  The Assumption of Regularity………………..........................................……………………………………………….339

                       

                        Chapter 25:  Democracy and Civil Liberties…………………......................................………………………………………….…..345

 

                        Chapter 26:  Argument over Methods………………………...............................................………………………………………..355

 

PART V:  HIGHLIGHTS AND DEFINITION

 

                        Chapter 27:  Some Historical Highlights………………….............................................…………………………………………….369

 

                        Chapter 28:  Definitions of “Socialism”…………….................................................………………………………………………..395

 

Index……………………………………..................................................................................................................……………………………..415