Contents -- Note to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Story of Human Society -- Plato's Vegetarian Republic -- Confucius' Polite Society -- Aristotle and the Hierarchy of Nature -- Mohammed's Message of Doom -- 5 Machiavelli's Psychopathic State -- 6 Hobbes' Wicked World -- 7 Locke's Feudal Freedom -- 8 Rousseau's Ode to Liberty -- 9 The Founding Fathers' Constitutional Recipe -- 10 Mr Smith's Excellent Inquiry into Money -- 11 Marx's Messianic Materialism -- 12 Mill's Optimistic Liberalism -- 13 Durkheim's Strange Science -- 14 The Philosophical Dance with Fascism -- 15 Hitler's Doctrine of Hate -- 16 Mao's Little Red Book -- Epilogue: The End of History? -- References and Sources for Further Reading -- Index.