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Global 120
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International Studies
Undergraduate 3
10/07/2011

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Ideology
Definition
1. A comprehensive set of political, economic, social religious beliefs. 
2. the study of ideology means understanding opinions, values, cultural beliefs that dominate a society and differentiate it from other societies. 
3. a set of beliefs that justify certain interests, and reflects and rationalizes particular political, economic, religious, and social interests (ex. slavery in the US, execution of children for stealing bread)


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Ideologies Emphasizing Primarily Class Struggle
Definition
Anarchism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism (all varieties)


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Ideologies Emphasizing Primarily the Collective Socialism

Definition
 
Socialism, Marxism (Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Neo-Marxism, etc.), Religious Socialism (Christian Socialism), Democratic Socialism (secular)




 

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Why Study Ideology?

Definition
-theory of how the world works, change world based on this theory. -study of assumptions/theories. -study of history: people explaining world around them, use as a guide for future.


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Karl Marx

Definition
1. religion as "opium of the masses". 2. educated in England, influenced by Hegel. 3. developed into liberal views. 4. editor for the newspaper. 5. involved in revolutionary projects against russians. 6. 1843- Paris. study & work, subject of scientific socialism/socialist thinking. not interested in utopia. wanted something real, likely to happen. 7. wrote "the communist manifesto" 1848 with Friedrich Engels. 8. married Jenny von Westphalen.
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Marx's Influences
Definition
1. british political economy & economic system. 2. french socialism & utopian thinking. 3. german philosophy, esp. Hegel.
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Karl Marx View on the Stages of History
Definition
1. Primitive (no classes). 2. Communism (no classes). 3. Slavery (slave owners v. slaves) 4. feudalism (landowners v. serfs). 5. capitalism (bougeoisie v. proletariats). 6. socialism (state managers v. workers). 7. Communism (no classes)
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Pre Revolutionary Russia

Definition
-only true autocracy left in Europe, no type of representative political intitutions. Nicholas II became Tsar in 1884, believed he was the absolute ruler anointed by God. Revolution broke out in 1905.
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Lenin

Definition
1. committed to socialism. moved to london in 1902, wrote "what is to be done?" 2. key role of the Party in the revolution - "dictatorship of the proletariat". 3. failure of the provisional gov't helped lenin. 4. workers refusing to work, soldiers refusing to fight. 5. very charismatic, understood revolutions, how to lead groups. 6. peasants were expropriating the land outright. 7. Lenin steps in and fills the power vacuum. 8. when armed services no longer support leader, necessary for revolution.


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Bolsheviks during Russian Revolution

Definition
1. Bolsheviks grow in numbers. 2. slogans, mantras- "workers of the world unite", "all power to the soviets", "bread, peace, freedom", mass meetings, gained followers.
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Why Capitalism Would Fail
Definition
1. proletariat saw how marxist revolutionaries granted rights to workers. 2. in 19th century (US & Europe), different from 20th century (regulation of the workplace, unionization. )
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Zygmunt Bauman
Definition
Fled Fascism, then Communism, focused on the problems of facism
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Porgrom
Definition
A form of violent riot, a mob attack directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes and properties, businesses, and religious centers.
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Kristallnachte
Definition

Night of Broken Glass

was a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughoutNazi Germany and parts of Austria 

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Enlightenment
Definition


Was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in Church and state.

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Volk
Definition
Several different meanings, such as folk (simple people),people in the ethnic sense, and nation.
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Volkish movements
Definition
Combining interest in folklore,ecologyoccultism and romanticism with ethnic nationalism, their ideologies were a strong influence on the Nazi party, which itself was inspired by Adolf Hitler's membership of theDeutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers' Party), even though Hitler in Mein Kampf himself denounced usage of the word völkisch as he considered it too vague as to carry any recognizable meaning due to former over-use. 
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NAZI
Definition
National Socialism is better traslated as "racial populism"
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Proaganda
Definition
tactics to infuse culture into to the "masses" to moblilize them, as a mass, against their racial and cultural enemy
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Benito Mussolini
Definition

known for:

The nationalization of the masses

"poplular sovereignty"

monumentalism

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Marx/Engels' approach
Definition

class struggle

slavery vs. liberty in French and haitian Revolution

bourgeois revolution

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stages of history
Definition

feudalism/religion

capitalism/liberalism

communism/socialism

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feudalism/religion
Definition
Body of labor is owned (slavery) or frozen in closed guilds
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capitalism/liberalism
Definition
value of labor is stolen through private property laws and wage labor competition
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communism/socialism

 

Definition
workers rule themselves democratically and recuperate the full value of labor
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Maoism
Definition
Is derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976). Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding ideology of theCommunist Party of China (CPC)
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Mao
Definition
farmer, librarian, revolutionary
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chinese civil war
Definition
1946 - 1950
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great leap forward
Definition
1958 - 1961
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cultural revolution
Definition
1966 - 1976
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The Long march of Maoism
Definition
Protracted "peoples' war" which relied on peasants with the aim to capture the cities
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The Mass Line
Definition

Involves the rural masses in each stage to be implemented by the masses.

True collectivist behavior

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Liberalism
Definition
The belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights
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names associated with liberalism
Definition
socrates, erasmus, descartes, hobbes, kant, montesquieu
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Mixed constitutionalism/division of powers
Definition
The emphasis on procedure and political rights rathn than substantive rights and substantive participation
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Negative Right
Definition
 Those rights that permit or oblige inaction. example: freedom of speech
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Positive Rights
Definition
permit or oblige action. example: police protection
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Direct Democracy
Definition
people collectively make decisions for themselves
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Third Worldism
Definition
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Non-Aligned Movement
Definition
1955 Bandung Conference, a conference of Asian and African states hosted by Indonesian president Sukarno, who gave a significant contribution to promote this movement. The attending nations declared their desire not to become involved in the Cold War and adopted a "declaration on promotion of world peace and cooperation",
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Vijay Prashad
Definition
The Darker Nations - the Third world was not a place, it was a project
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Third Worldism's "built-in flaw"
Definition
Nationalism
Term
In the Cold War, Both sides ignore of exploit Third Worldsim
True or False
Definition
True
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UN Human Rights Debate
Definition
1948, Eleanor Roosevelt was in attendance
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Belgian Congo was the "private company" of who?
Definition
King Leopold II
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1957 People's Solidarity Conference was held where?
Definition
Cairo
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Who rejected Marx's "stages of history" for a geo spatial model and set of circuits of capitalist power relations
Definition
Andre Gunder Frank
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Dependency Theory
Definition
s a body of social science theories predicated on the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system."
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Dependenista Theory adds what to dependency theory
Definition
The use of poorer nations as dumping grounds
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Neocolonial Theory
Definition
Independen post colonial state is a ruse, it's sovereignty is haunted by former colonial powers who control fundamental policy from mainly economic means
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Dependency Theory is against what other theory?
Definition
Moderniztion
Term
Why is Dependency Theory is against what modernization theory?
Definition
it's focus is on the nation-state as the only unit of analysis, there is only one single path of evolutionary development for all countries and it's disregard of transnational structures.
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World Systems Theory
Definition
a social system that has boundaries, structures, member groups, rules of legitimation and coherence.
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The focus of the world systems model is:
Definition
it's focus on the semi-perifphery and its constant crisis and international tensions
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Franz Fanon wrote " Concerning Violence" which states what?
Definition
Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.
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Cosmpolitanism
Definition
is the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. It may include some sort of world government.
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liberalism
Definition
is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and freedom of religion
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pluralism
Definition
when small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, also multicultural, with the acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems.
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transnational identities
Definition
result from the combination of peoples origins with the identities they acquire in their host countries. According to transnationalists, this combination leads more to the development of “double identities” than to the emergence of conflicting identities.
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exclusivism
Definition
is the practice of being exclusive; mentality characterized by the disregard for opinions and ideas other than one's own, or the practice of organizing entities into groups by excluding those entities which possess certain traits that are not desirable.
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Universal Races Congress
Definition
Held in 1911, in London
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Universal Races Congress Paradox
Definition
claims to universalism are always rooted in particular time and space
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Gandhism
Definition
is a body of ideas and principles that describes the inspiration, vision and the life work of Gandhi. It is particularly associated with his contributions to the idea and practice of nonviolent resistance, sometimes also called civil resistance or civil disobedience.
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Bodhisattva
Definition
an enlightenment being, Gandhi has been called this
Term
The pivotal and defining element of Ganhism is satya, which means:
Definition
truth
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