Political Thought

Political Thought is about the State, its structure, its nature and its purpose. Its concern is with nothing less than the moral phenomena of human behaviour in society. It seeks not so much an explanation of the existance of the State as a justification of its continuance. The intention of this book is to provide for the beginner a comprehensive introduction to this most important subject.

CONTENTS:

1. How it All Began: The Greeks, Plato, Anstotle, and the Organic View of the State
2. The State Machine: Hobbes, Locke, the Utilitarians – Bentham, Mill
3. The State as Organism: Rousseau, Hegel, Green
4. The State as Class: Marx, Lenin, Stalin.