Contents: Ancient Greek political thought -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Political ideas of later Greece and Rome -- Medieval political thought -- Some medieval thinkers -- Reformation -- Modern political thought -- Machiavelli -- Anti-monarchic doctrines of 16th century -- Bodin and Grotius -- Political theory of Puritan revolution -- Some radical republican thinkers -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- Enlightenment in political thought -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau compared -- Edmund Burke -- Revolutions and political theory -- The English utilitarians -- Utilitarian theory of limited state -- German idealism -- English idealism -- Herbert Spencer -- Fabian socialism -- Revisionism and Bernstein -- Anarchism -- Early socialists -- Emergence of Marxism -- Dialectical and Historical materialism -- Classes and class struggle -- Base and superstructure -- Marxian theory of state -- Marxism and religion -- Scientific socialism -- Capitalism -- Revolution -- Dictatorship of the proletariat -- Alienation -- Marxism today -- The Classic comments -- Political Philosophy of Lenin -- Political ideas of Mao Zedong.