*** Foreword

*** introduction:

**** Why attack democracy?

*** Democracy: an historical overview.

**** The emergence of democracy: Ancient Greece

**** The madness continues: from the Middle Ages to the English Revolution

**** The madness hardens: from the young USA to the French revolution

**** The madness triumphs: today’s liberal democracies

*** Critique of contemporary democracy

**** A review of the history of the concept of democracy

**** Opposition to democracy.

*** Majority Rule

*** Rights

*** Electoral law

*** Tolerance, civility and democratic thought

*** Social control, the family and democracy

*** Specialization

*** The hidden faces of democracy

**** Operation of the economic system

**** Shared interests of the power elites

**** Conclusion

*** Alternative democracies

*** Alternatives to democracy