Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth CenturyUniversity Press of America, 1986 - 423 Seiten In a lively and provocative interpretation of the History of the United States during the last one hundred years, Lukacs maintains that though Americans waste material goods, they are not materialistic. He believes that beginning in the 1950s Americans passed from a democratic order to a bureaucratic state. In this period a majority of working population of a country was no longer engaged in production. Another theme discussed here is inflation and he demonstrates how and why "inflation of society" and the "inflation of words" have led to inflation of money. Lukacs also offers an assessment of Wilson--a contemporary of Lenin. It is his belief that it was the ideas of Wilson rather that Lenin that governed the history of the rest of the century. For sale in India at Rs. 64.00. |
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TOCQUEVILLE REVERSED | 59 |
PART II | 89 |
The Development of | 123 |
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