| 7 | INTRODUCTION |
| Part I | |
| THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE | |
| 15 | Chapter 1 • THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS ON THE FUTURE IN SOCIAL THOUGHT (Up to the Emergence of Marxism) |
| 40 | Chapter 2 • MARXIST-LENINIST SCIENTIFIC FORECASTING |
| Part II | |
| BOURGEOIS PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT ABOUT THE FUTURE | |
| 75 | Chapter 1 • SOCIAL FORECASTING IN BOURGEOIS PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY |
| Chapter 2 • NEO-POSITIVIST SCEPTICISM VERSUS MARXIST HISTORISM | |
| 85 | [introduction.] |
| 88 | Anti-historism and nihilist rejection of the science of society |
| 100 | Anti-historism and the problem of the communist transformation of society |
| 109 | Chapter 3 • EXISTENTIALISM AND THE FUTURE OF MANKIND |
| 121 | Chapter 4 • THE TEILHARDIST CONCEPTION OF FUTURE OF MANKIND |
| 131 | Chapter 5 • STRUCTURALISM AND HISTORICAL FORECASTING |
| Part III | |
| A CRITIQUE OF MODERN BOURGEOIS SOCIOPOLITICAL CONCEPTIONS OF THE FUTURE | |
| 145 | Chapter 1 • THE ANTI-HISTORISM OF THE IDEOLOGY OF INDUSTRIALISM |
| 161 | Chapter 2 • THE CAPITALIST APOLOGY UNDER THE GUISE OF THE “SINGLE INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY” (A Critique of the Views of the French Sociologist Raymond Aron on the Society of the Future) |
| 178 | Chapter 3 • THE THEORY OF CONVERGENCE |
| Chapter 4 • THE UTOPIA OF THE WORLD STATE AND THE PROBLEM OF REGIONALISM | |
| 195 | [introduction.] |
| 196 | Certain philosophical “arguments” in favour of the idea of the world state |
| 199 | The Utopian nature of the idea of the world state |
| 203 | Regional associations: two approaches |
| 213 | Chapter 5 • THE “FORMED SOCIETY”—A TOTALITARIAN CONCEPTION |
| 229 | Chapter 6 • MANKIND’S FUTURE AS SEEN BY RIGHT SOCIAL DEMOCRATS |
| 253 | Chapter 7 • THE ANTI-COMMUNIST NATURE OF IDEAS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS IN BOURGEOIS FUTUROLOGY AND THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND “EVOLUTION” THEORIES |
| Part IV | |
| PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING | |
| Chapter 1 • SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING IN THE WEST | |
| 281 | [introduction.] |
| 282 | Population growth and food resources |
| 286 | Use of Mineral and Fuel Resources in the Future |
| 293 | Man and the machine |
| 298 | Town planning, transport and communications |
| 300 | The information “explosion” |
| 303 | The exploration of outer space |
| 306 | The influence of science on the spiritual life of mankind in the future |
| Chapter 2 • SOME PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING IN THE USSR | |
| 309 | [introduction.] |
| 315 | The prospects of the world fuel and raw material balance |
| 318 | Automation and cybernetisation of social production as a new stage in the development of productive forces |
| 321 | Population and food resources |
| 325 | The town of the future. Transport and communications prospects |
| 330 | Future problems of the exploration of the Earth and outer space |
| 336 | Science and social progress |
| Part V | |
| COMMUNISM— THE FUTURE OF ALL MANKIND | |
| 343 | [introduction.] |
| 344 | THE INAUGURATOR OF THE COMMUNIST FUTURE OF ALL MANKIND |
| 347 | THE ESSENCE OF COMMUNISM AND ITS MAIN PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| 360 | THE MAIN HISTORICAL STAGES OF THE COMMUNIST FORMATION |
| 367 | THE HISTORICAL INEVITABILITY OF WORLD COMMUNISM AS THE HIGHEST STAGE OF WORLD CIVILISATION |
| 372 | SOURCES OF THE UNLIMITED DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNIST SOCIETY |
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