Author: Clarence F. Birdseye

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781330171189

Excerpt from American Democracy Versus Prussian Marxism a Study in the Nature and Results of Purposive or Beneficial Government American Democracy, because it is a great living and growing organism, has a law of Life. That Life has its law of growth which determines the manner and extent of the growth and development of the living thing. These two laws can be understood and measured only as we study and understand how American Democracy has shown its life-giving force, and what were its antecedents, its purposes, its advantages and disadvantages, and what results its law of growth has wrought in and through that Democracy. This Life can be destroyed by disease or decay within, or by a greater force from without. Prussian Marxism has spread throughout the world. Therefore it, too, has its laws of Life and growth which must also be discovered and understood through its antecedents, purposes, surroundings, operations and results. The only way in which we can fully understand the fundamental differences between Democracy and Prussian Marxism or Socialism is to study and compare their laws of Life and growth, and their purposes and results when actually put into operation. We must also determine whether the growth of either of these forces implies the choking out of the life of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.