Complications communism and the dilemmas of democracy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wisdom of the historian -- Critique of "couch liberalism" -- Autopsy of an illusion -- Marx's false paternity -- The idea of revolution and the revolutionary phenomenon -- The Jacobin phantom -- A liberal matrix for the dictatorship of the proletariat? -- Democracy and totalitarianism -- The myth of the Soviet Union in the West -- The French communist party after World War II -- Utopia and tragedy -- The political and the social -- An intentional movement -- The party above all -- Disincorporation and reincorporation of power -- Hannah Arendt on the law of movement and ideology -- The perversion of the law -- The fabrication of the social voluntary servitude -- Impossible reform -- Planning and social division -- Psychologism and moralism at fault -- Communism and the constitution of the world-space.