Lectures to the Chinese
by Alfred De Grazia


Table of Contents

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...FOREWORD TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
...INTRODUCTION FOR THE CHINESE READER

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PART ONE: THE EIGHT BADS

01. ...LIVING IN THE PAST
Red Cultural Revolution and the New Left; "striking the big bell"; Political lag; the backward look.
02. ...PRACTICING DECEPTION
Fooling infants; the faithless majority; the Watergate affair; schizoid misfeasance in high places; secrecy.
03. ...EXALTING IDOLS
"King Wen is on high";charisma of the president the typical American; the life raft of equality; myth of the Constitution.
04. ...BECOMING DEPENDENT
Old and new poverty; the blanket of dependency; "the three exponentials" and "the four disproductions"; the Grotesque National Product; ecological guilt.
05. ...DIVIDING THE SOUL AGAINST ITSELF
Anomia and the sick society; diseases of authority; political community; the strike of fire fighters; the locals and the cosmopolitans; the job-centered universe; in search of one's head; the wayward press.
06. ...SETTING ONE ABOVE ANOTHER
The bureaucratic transformation of America; corporatism; how the rich become socialist; leader worship leads to taxesis; expanding legalism; industrial democracy; the super-rich.
07. ...SETTING ONE AGAINST ANOTHER
Intelligence; aggressiveness; violence as an equalizer; party watchdogs; Taoist decisions; the system of American contradictions.
08. ...BEING PROUD
The human failure of the Mandate of Tien; pride goeth before world destruction; megalomania and the Bomb; hyper-imperialism, decline, and collapse.
09. ...CONCLUSION TO PART ONE:
A CULTURE OF FORCE

The bads of other lands; a culture by coercion; the American Dream ended.

...PART TWO THE EIGHT GOODS

01. ...BEING HONEST
The open character; the custom of confession; the intelligentsia; micro-property; free enterprise frees.
02. ...JOINING TOGETHER
Participatory democracy; activists and leaders; voluntarism and the independent sector.
03. ...SOLVING PROBLEMS
A hundred flowers and schools; social solutions; doing all through representation.
04. ...PRODUCING GOODS
What to produce; organization without tears; exponential politics.
05. ...CARING FOR EVERYONE
The birth and death of crowds; the social contract and life accounts; true socialism; "the six cares"; the tax system.
06. ...DISPENSING JUSTICE
Independent judges; the six plagues of injustice"; the rule of law.
07. ...MAKING FRIENDS
The five roles in ta t'ung; how much America can give; who can give what to America; fable of the bridge; the Golden Monkey.
08. ...RULING WELL
The teacher and the police officer; when Americans act like Mao; the twenty-three principles of a good constitution.
09. ...CONCLUSION TO PART TWO:
A CULTURE OF FREEDOM

The eight goods of other lands; how a free culture operates.
10. ...FINALE
BEING HAPPY IN CHINA AND AMERICA

Raising children with less and more; a day well spent; the final contradiction.
...BOOK NOTE:
WHAT CHINESE SHOULD READ ABOUT AMERICA