Routledge Revivals: Germany and World-Historical Evolution

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Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- THE POLITICAL HORIZON -- Germany is not an island -- Dread of reality -- Rationalism and Romanticism -- The deceptive peace, 1871-1914 -- Greatness of the age -- WORLD WARS AND WORLD POWERS -- The age of world wars -- Between past and future forms of power, Metternich -- The first world war threatened from 1878 -- 1918 decided nothing -- End of " Europe," -- Decline of the dignity of the State from the Congress of Vienna -- Democratic nationalism -- Economics mightier than politics: germ of the economic crisis -- Transformation of armies and strategic ideas -- Navies and colonies -- Economic warfare -- New powers -- Russia once more Asiatic -- Japan -- The United States and revolution -- England -- France -- Standing out of world politics does not protect against their consequences, -- THE WHITE WORLD-REVOLUTION -- The " revolution from below," -- Age of the Gracchi in Rome -- Not economic, but urban: dissolution of society -- Society as order of rank -- Differences, not contrasts -- Underworld of great cities: " noble " and " vulgar," -- Goal of the Revolution: the levelling of society. Democracy = Bolshevism -- Property, luxury, wealth -- Class war beginsabout 1770 -- In England -- The united movement from Liberalism to Bolshevism -- Mobilization of the" working class 99 from 1840. " Dictatorship of the proletariat," -- Professional agitators -- Bolshevism not Russian -- Tolerance of Liberal society -- Cult ofthe " worker," -- Type of the demagogue -- Church andclass war, Communism and religion -- Economic egoism asthe moral of class war -- Age of revolutionary theory, 1750-1850. National economy from 1770 onward belongs to it -- Negative ideal of class war: from 1770, destruction ofthe order of rank -- from 1840, of the economic order