Fascism :
Reading: — Hitler, Adolf, Hitler sets the tone, in G. L. Mosse 1966 Nazi Culture. New York, 1-16 –Mosse, George L. 1975 The new politics, in The nationalization of the masses. Cornell UP, 1-20
Liberalism :
Readings: — Schapiro, Salwyn 1958 The making of the liberal mind, in Liberalism: its meaning and history –Hewlett, Nick 2000 Democracy: Liberal and Direct, in Understanding contemporary society. Sage –Plattner, Mark 1998 Liberalism and democracy (CFR)
Communism: Marxism and/vs Leninism
Reading: –Marx, Karl 1848 Bourgeois and Proletarians, The Communist Manifesto, chapter 1 –Marx, Karl, The materialist conception of history (excerpts) –Lewin, Moshe 1985 Leninism and Bolshevism: the test of history and power, in The Making of the Soviet system. New York, Pantheon, 191208
Maoism Readings:
–Lin Biao 1965 The International Significance of Comrade Mao-Tse Tung’s Theory of People’s War, in Long Live the Victory of People’s War! Beijing, Foreign Languages Press –Meisner, M. 1977 The Maoist Legacy and Chinese Socialism, Asian Survey, 17, 11: 1016-27 –D’Mello, Bernard 2009 What is Maoism? Monthly Review, November [Background: Mao, On contradiction, 1936]