This examination of political ideas, within the context of pertinent social, economic, political, technological, historical and contemporary events, has been totally revised and updated. In this new edition, Baradat expands the chapter on anarchism, increases coverage of Marxism and socialism, evaluates the recent revolutionary changes in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China and their relationship to Marxist-Leninism, explores contemporary fascism and neo-nazism and analyzes democracy as it applies to the West, the Third World and communist countries. Current ideological developments in the Third World, including liberation theology, are also examined in depth.