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Political Ideologies

Ideologies

Political Theory

  • How would ought to be
  • Analytic Consistency
  • Post-Analytic Theories
    • Post-Colonialism
    • Post-Structuralism
    • Nietzschean
    • Hegelian
    • Marxism
  • Closer to ideology
    • Can’t test
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Pro/Anti-System Ideology

  • Greek Nationalism
  • Utopian Socialism
    • Brook Farm

Political Science

  • How the world is
  • Institutional Economic Cultural theories
  • Motivations

Thick & Thin Ideologies

  • Thin
    • Feminism
    • Populism
      • Conservatism
    • Nationalism
  • Thick
    • Liberalism
    • Socialism
    • Conservatism
  • Combined
    • Nationalist populism
    • Socialist Ecologium

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Psychological Foundations

  • Change as loss or stimulating
  • Order-seeking
  • Personality links to political ideology
  • 1/3 - 1/2 Heritable (cultural)
    • Not party identification

Emotions > Logic Evidence

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Nature vs Nurture

  • Anarchism
    • People good, corrupted by society
      • Blank Slate
  • Liberalism
    • Humans Selfish
      • Can be Harnessed
  • Marxist Socialism
    • Blank Slate

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Nationalism

  • Levels of Ethnicity
  • Multi-Ethnic States
  • Pride and Humiliation
    • Germany
    • China
  • Left & Right Nationalism
    • Left
      • Secular
      • Liberal
      • Ethnic
      • Different Visions
    • Right
      • Religious
      • Conservative
      • Civic
      • within
  • Causes of Diversity in Africa
    • Geography
    • Ecosystems
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Theories

  • Schools
    • Ethmosymbolist
    • Modernist
      • Blank Slate
      • State First
        • Culture Second
      • Theory dominates
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Modernity

  • Capitalism
  • Common Laws
  • Overthrow of Kings & Gods
    • We the People
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • Link Liberalism & Democracy
  • Territoralism
  • Language
  • Mass Education
  • Military Police

Meanings

  • Ideology
  • Concrete Movement

State

  • Geographical
  • Political Vast
  • Monopoly Organized force
    • Military
    • Police

Ethnic Group

  • Specific Homeland
  • Social Group
  • Myth of Common Ancestry
  • Proper Name
  • Historical memories
  • One element of common culture

Nation

  • Imagined community
  • Mass public culture
  • Common myths and memories
  • Economy communication
  • Some political aspiration
  • Territory
  • Proper name

Liberalism

  • Ought
    • Equality
    • Property
    • Freedom
  • Is
    • Not Blank Slate
    • Not born good
    • Human pursue self-interest
  • Plan
    • Reform
    • Revolution
      • 1776
      • 1688
      • 1789
  • Positive Liberty
  • Negative Liberty
  • Liberal ≠ Left
    • Right Liberalism
      • Economic liberalism
    • Left Liberalism
      • Cultural liberalism
    • Both have Free Speech

People

  • Jeremy Bentham
    • Maximize Freedom
    • Utilitarianism
    • Agnostic about good
    • Happiness - Suffering
  • John Stuart Mill
    • Higher Pleasures
      • Knowledge
    • Positive Conception of Liberty
    • Benefit of Civilization

Economic Liberalism

  • Free market
  • Adam Smith
    • Private Interest = Beneficial for all
      • Private Vice makes public virtue
    • Market Demand
    • Invisible Hand
  • Utilitarian

Cultural

  • Negative Liberty
    • Religious Freedom
  • Positive Liberty
    • Expressive individualism
  • Toleration

History

  • Ancient Greece + Roman + Judeo-Christian
  • England
    • Legal Rights in 1215
      • Magna Carta
        • King’s Power restricted
        • Rights for elites
        • Constitutional system
    • Common Law
    • 1642-1651
      • Civil War
    • Economic Reasons
      • Industrialization
        • Less Oppression
      • Large Middle Class
        • Don’t need to tax peasants
    • About Liberalism not democracy
    • 18th Century
      • Civil Rights
      • Free Press
        • John Wikes
      • Reforms
        • National Identity
      • Habeas Corpus
  • American Revolution
    • John Locke
    • Constitution Written down
    • Small land owners in North
      • Broad based economy
    • Local Government
    • National Identity
    • Vote without owning property
      • Revolutionary
  • French Revolution
    • 1789
    • Declaration on Rights of Man
    • Less Preconditions
      • Tax peasants
      • Strong bureaucracy
    • National Identity
    • Few checks and balances
    • Releases into Monarchy
      • Napoleon
  • Islamic World
    • 11th Century
      • Islamic thinkers influenced by Greek philosophy, sidelined by conservative Islam
        • Cultural Liberalism didn’t flourish
    • Socialism
      • Nasserism
      • Baathism
    • Ottoman Tanzimat Reforms
      • Limited
      • 1839
      • Tainted by ‘infidel’ association
    • Religious Law
      • Sharia
    • No individual liberty
    • Toleration of Worship
      • Ottoman
  • Expansion in 1980s
    • Illiberal Democracy
      • Lack of Rights protections

Varieties

  • Majority protection
  • Religious authority freedom
  • Checks on executive
  • Individual rights against state

Liberalism ≠ Democracy

  • Democracy
    • Periodic elections
    • Freedom dissent
    • Term limits
    • Majority Rule
  • Liberalism
    • Free press
    • Minority Rights
    • Constitutional rights
    • Freedom from arrest
    • Checks on executive
    • Individual Liberty
  • Minority vs. Majority Clash

Conservatism

  • Society as organism
  • Harmony > Clashes
  • Wisdom of tradition and precedent
  • Order & stability; not change
  • Anti-Free Market a bit
    • Now the right adopted economic liberalism

Is, Ought, Plan

  • Humans imperfect not blank slate
  • Uphold social order, incremental change
  • Evolution not Revolution

1700s

  • John Locke
    • Social Contract
    • First Principles
  • Edmund Burke
    • Against French Revolution
    • Society as organic
  • Pursue change humbly
  • Respect tradition
  • American Revolution
    • Classical liberalism
    • Lockean
  • Canada
    • 1783
    • “Peace, order and good government.”
  • Typical at time
    • Monarchy + Religious Authority
      • France
        • 1789 Revolution
        • People > King Power
      • God -> Monarch -> Aristocracy -> Social Order

18th -> 19th Century

  • One Nation toryism
  • Christian Democracy
  • Bringing closer to socialism

Populist Right

  • Direct Democracy
  • anti-elitism
    • Liberal
  • Anti-Hierarchy
  • 21st Century
    • Europe
    • Trump

Core

  • Attitude
  • Safety
    • National security
  • Change ok if going back to Golden Age
  • Attachments
    • Western Civilization
    • Institutions
    • Liberalism
      • Constitution
    • Religion
    • Nation
    • Family
    • People

Traditional Conservatism

  • Burkean
    • Slow Change
  • Cautious about greed and free markets
    • Suspicious about new money
  • Paternalistic on welfare system
  • Hierarchy
  • Church
  • Family
  • Nation

Cold War

  • Neoliberalism
  • Libertarianism
  • Economic Focus
    • Cut taxes and spending
    • Deregulation
  • Influenced by
    • Hayek
    • Rand
    • Friedman
  • Thrift discipline work
  • Thatcher & Reagan
  • Neoconservatism
    • Democracy promotion
  • ‘New Right’
  • Free Market Liberalism

After Cold War

  • Euphoria
  • Globalization
  • End of Bipolar World
  • Doesn’t Last

National Populism, National Conservatism

  • 1980s-2000s
  • Religion opposes nationalism
    • France
    • Turkey
    • Zionism
    • Arab Nationalism

Republican Party Fusionism

  • Market Liberalism
  • Neoconservatism
  • Religious Right

Populism

  • Trump
    • Small dollar donors

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Socialism

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  • Is
    • Humans are malleable
    • Socialization
    • Moral Creatures
    • Blank Slate
      • Environment
      • Socialization
  • Ought
    • Equality of outcome
  • Plan
    • Revolution or Reform
      • 1949 China
    • October Revolution
    • 1917 Russia
    • Cuba 1959

Types

  • Libertarian socialism
  • New Left
    • 1960s+
    • No Fraternity
    • Identity group focused
  • Communal
    • Marxist Left
    • Christian socialism
    • Laborism
    • Chinese communism

History

  • Utopian Socialists
    • Communal Work
    • People
      • Charles Farier
      • Henri de Saint-Simon
      • Robert Owen
        • New Harmony, Indiana Colony
          • Leader most powerful
          • No selfishness
          • Work for credit for town store
    • 19th Century
      • Midwest
    • Collectivistic
    • Share property
    • Free love
  • Fourierism
    • Liberty & Equality
    • Colts Neck, NJ
    • Anarchist Libertarian
    • Sexually rejected
    • Work for common good
  • Anarchism
    • Communes
    • Leaderless
    • Anti-social Norms
    • Human freedom
    • Anti-State
  • State
    • Engels
    • indoctrinating
    • Community Utopia
      • Each get same amount; regardless of work effect
    • Marx
      • Oppressed vs Oppressor
      • 1: Economics, 2: Culture
      • 4 Stages of History
          1. Primitive
          1. Slave
          1. Feudal
          1. Capitalist
          1. Socialist
        • No point to build socialism yet during 1-3
      • Capitalists / Workers
        • Falling rate of profit
        • Exploit workers for wealth
      • Criticism
        • Labor theory of Value
          • Value = Meeting consumer demands, low cost
            • Not exploited labor
        • Rate of Profit
          • Doesn’t fall tech improvement
          • Desire & caskc to supply
          • New demand products
        • Command & Control Economy
          • New Goods
          • Inefficient
          • Rising Demands
          • Wisdom of Crowds
            • Price Signal

Power

  • State Socialism
    • Lenin
      • Communist part all the power
      • Controls property
      • Collective
      • Agriculture
      • Industrialization
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Post-1945

  • Berlin Wall
  • Communitarian Socialism vs. Liberal Democracy

Social Democracy

  • Less Authoritarian
  • Improve working class
  • Workers vote
    • Women
    • non-property holders
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Fate

  • Post-War boom ends
    • After 1945-1973
  • Rise of
    • Thatcher
    • Reagan
  • Europe left out of power
  • 1989
    • Collapse of USSR
  • Decline of Unions
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Fascism

  • Society as organism
    • Control thought
    • Rallies
  • Charismatic Leader
    • Where power comes from
  • non-democratic collective will
  • Type of Nationalism
  • Militarist
  • State power
  • No minority rights
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  • Support in West
    • Britain
    • France
    • Looked at jokes
  • Insecure vs. Secure Countries
  • Thin Ideology
  • Socialist Link
    • Mussolini
      • Hitler’s Ideal
  • Other times at war
  • Stalin influence
  • State over individual

Nazi Germany

  • Peasant virtues
    - Anti-Urban
  • Return to past
    • Tribal
  • Race based
    - Social Darwinism Eugenics
    - Fabian Socialists
    - Widespread Early 20th Century intellectuals
    - Seen as “modern”
    - Scientific Racialism
  • Material Factors
    - Depression
    - Youth Bulge
    - Countryside to Cities
  • Territorial Expansion
  • Anti-Semitism
    • Already in 1880s
  • WWI
    • Humiliation
    • Co-ethics stranded in lost territory
      • Living Space

Mussolini

  • Backward and future looking
  • Futurism
  • Church bend to state
  • Politics based
  • Gentile
  • Internal repression
  • Hegel

Neo-fascism

  • Griffin’s four post-war trends → Fascism - Roger Griffin
  • Far-right vs Populist Right
  • Social cohesion
  • Accept Democratic system
    • Fascism does not
  • Not expansionist
  • Right the wrongs in history

Nationalism

  • Thin Ideology
  • Ethnic German vs Civil Italian neo-Roman
  • Eastern European successionist 19th Century
  • Emerges after French Revolution 1789
  • Popular sovereignty or will
  • Community
  • Fascism is the Extreme version

Sources

  • Hegel
    • Nation
    • Spirit
    • Influences Gentile
  • Survival of the fittest
  • Attacks Christianity Humanitarian Socialism
  • Against Enlightenment Liberalism
  • Rousseau
    • General Will
  • Nietzsche
    • Superman
    • Will to power
    • Slave Morality
      • Bad to be wealthy
    • Hates Democracy, Socialism, Communism
    • Hates Christianity
      • Yourself > Others
      • Pride > Humility
      • God < Will to Power

Culture

  • Cohesion
  • Generally does not want individualism
  • Importance of Past

Economic

  • Corporatism
  • Pragmatic

Feminism

  • Thin Ideology
  • Biology
  • Social Constructionist
    • Dominate
  • Is
    • Male on female oppression
  • Ought
    • Gender equality
    • Seperation
      • Minority
  • Plan
    • Reform
    • Revolution
  • Nature vs. Nuture
  • Economic vs Cultural
  • Structure vs Agency
  • Plan or Action
    • Difference
      • Defense of boundaries distinctiveness
    • Equality
      • Fluid Boundaries
    • Gender as identity
    • Gender as one strand or wider leftist struggle
  • Links
    • Liberal feminism
    • Socialist Feminism
      • Revolution
      • Based on class
    • Radical Feminism
      • Gender roles
      • New Left
      • Private sphere as well

History

First Wave

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  • Wasn’t a left wing movement. Wasn’t a left and right at the time.

Second Wave

  • 20th Century
  • Social Feminism
    • Engels
    • Capitalist Exploitation
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  • Radical difference feminism
    • Political Lesbianism

Third Wave

  • Trans-feminism
  • Queer Theory
  • Intersectionality
    • Oppression Points
  • Deemphasizing Biology
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Anti-Racism

  • Clustering of Traits
    • Continum
  • Race boundaries are mostly social constructed
  • Ability to see racism by face
  • Ethnic Groups
    • Race can serve as a boundary marker between ethnic groups
    • Supra-ethnic groups
      • Latin Americans
      • Arabs
      • White Americans
    • “Race” was used for ethnic groups prior to 1960s
  • Ethnic Chauvinism and Racism
    • Benjamin Franklin “swerthy” sweeds
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  • Scientific Racism 19th Century
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  • Liberal Precursors
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  • Civil Rights Movement
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  • Equality of Opportunity -> Result
    • Lyndon Johnson
      • “equality as a result”
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  • Post 1960s
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  • 1980s-1990s
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  • Critical Race Theory
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  • Activism
    • Cultural Psychological
      • Speech Codes
      • Media
      • Healing Circles
    • Structural
      • Unions
      • Immigration Quotas
      • Poison
      • Jobs

Mindmap

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