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Political Ideologies
Semester 1 Midterm
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
12/11/2008

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Ideology
Definition
system of ideas; shapes social change; dynamic
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4 function of an ideology
Definition
Explanation, Evaluation, Orientation, Prescription
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Brian Barry's Liberalism
Definition
religious toleration, freedom of the press, abolition of servile social status
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Liberal Conception of Freedom
Definition
humans should be free from legal barriers; fair competition, equal opportunity
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Martin Luther
Definition
against Church corruption
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Tom Paine
Definition
Wrote "Common Sense"
Government is a necessary evil
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Mandeville
Definition
People should be free to pursue their economic interests; wrote "Fable of the Bees"
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Liberalism as an Ideology
Definition
Explanation: individual choices
Evaluation: equal freedom of opportunity
Orientation: rational
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Conservatism
Definition
traditional, skeptical, organic
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Edmund Burke
Definition
against French revolution; reform must be careful and gradual;
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Conservative Freedom
Definition

like fire- sometimes good, sometimes bad

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De Maistre's Conservatism
Definition
old order, reactionary, throne and altar
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Michael Okshot- conservatism today

Definition
neo Burkean, cautious, politics is about tending to social arrangements
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Conservatism as an ideology
Definition
Explanation: human imperfection
Evaluation: emphasizes peace and stability; slow and gradual
Orientation: individuals part of a larger whole
Political program: proceed with caution, preserve what we have
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Conservatism Core Ideas
Definition
safe change, social order insulated from human control
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Socialism
Definition
- goods should be distributed with the aim of benefitting all
- anti commercial/anti capitalist
- government ownership
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Socialism Core Ideas
Definition
- group as a basic social unit
- equality (distribution based on need)
- productive activity
- progress
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Thomas More
Definition
emphasized communal ownership; against pride, greed, envy
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Claude Henri de Saint Simon- Socialism

Definition
- class based historical stages
- belief based economic systems
- replace capitalist inefficiency and waste with expert planning
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Robert Owen- socialism
Definition
- bad conduct stems from a corrupt social system
- capitalism rewards greed and selfishness
- produce cooperatively for the public
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Karl Marx

Definition
- religion created in response to human suffering- "opium of the people"
- human essence detached from human existence
- alienation
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Eduard Bernstein- Socialism
Definition
Moral considerations are as important as the victory of socialism
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Lenin
Definition
- intellectual and practical support for revolution; organized and disciplined
- must be willing to engage in violence
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Stalin
Definition
- socialism must be an international movement
- dialectical materialism
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Mussolini
Definition
against liberalism, in favour of unity; individual sacrifice, state worship
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Hitler's Nazism
Definition
- resentment
- social Darwinism
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Mary Wollstonecraft on Feminism
Definition
- women and men are equal
- women are oppressed by social institutions
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Liberal Feminism
Definition
Equalize opportunities for men and women
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Bentham
Definition
animal liberation- capacity to suffer
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Peter Singer
Definition
Speciesism
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