The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation

ISBN-13: 9780415131339 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 258 str.

Bertrand Russell; Dora Russell

Opis

This text provides a glimpse into areas of Russell's political thought. Russell criticizes his own age, and demonstrates how humanity perpetually struggles against the centralizing forces of industrialism and nationalism. He views industrialism as a threat to human freedom, as it creates large populations which have to be subject to controls and he likens Bolshevik Russia to Cromwell's England, asserting that both were dictatorships designed to force an essentially feudal society to adopt industrialism. He sees industrialism and nationalism as fundamentally linked and proposes one government for the whole world as a solution.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Part I; Chapter I Causes of the Present Chaos; Chapter II Inherent Tendencies of Industrialism; Chapter III Industrialism and Private Property; Chapter IV Interactions of Industrialism and Nationalism; Chapter V The Transition to Internationalism; Chapter VI Socialism in Undeveloped Countries; Chapter VII Socialism in Advanced Countries; Part II Part II; Chapter VIII What Makes A Social System Good or Bad?; Chapter IX Moral Standards and Social Well-Being; Chapter X The Sources of Power; Chapter XI The Distribution of Power; Chapter XII Education; Chapter XIII Economic Organization and Mental Freedom;

O autorze

Bertrand Russell, Dora Russell, Louis Greenspan