An ideology is a set of ideas and a organized political group that wants to push their desires and beliefs on society. Someone’s ideology often defines how they make sense of the world.
Ideologies are not just important to politicians but everyone because of the influence it has in our life. If we are unaware of this we don’t have any control on our own life’s.
Origin
The term ideology comes from the French Revolution
Destutt de Tracy said it was the “science of ideas”
Karl Marx was a philosopher, author, social theorist, and an economist. He was famous for his Theroux’s on ideologies.
“I. E. The ruling intellectual force”
- You can controlling the ideas you share if your apart of the workforce
- You either work for someone or own something
- The owner has the power and control
- He believes the roles can be flipped
Core Themes
Liberalism
Is known as the ‘Industrialized west’
This ideology values: The individual, freedom, reason, justice, tolerance
- Importance of individual includes being unique and equal
- Commitment to individual freedom but not to the point that they are truly free to do whatever. There is a balance
- Having faith to reason and use your intellect to make actions in the world
- it is just that each person should be given what they are ‘due’
- Tolerance and pluralism: we can all live and work together as one
Believe that these ideas all should be central to our lives
Conservatism
This ideology values tradition and believes it is the foundation of society (without society would crumble)
humans are deemed imperfect and not perfectible leading to the need of security provided by the government
Organic society is also believed key to the existence of human being because we need society and social groups. It’s natural for us to have hierarchy and authority.
Property creates a stable world giving individuals responsibility to take care of their personals
Socialism
This ideologies values are: community, equality, social class, and common ownership
Community
- Humans are tied by a common humanity
- We are all brothers and sisters
- Human nature
- People can change
- Can become greater and better people
- Cooperation
- They believe this is natural
- We want to work to get her and not compete naturally
Equality
-Core principal
-committed to equality
Social class
-All important
-Want to eliminate the class system
Common ownership
-All property is seen as communal
-‘From each according to his ability to each according to his need’ -Karl Marx
Socialism Vs. Communism
-Communism is a classless society
-Socialism is a more middle point, acceptance of a state
Fascism
History
- 19th Century roots (relatively new)
- Mussolini had a fascist party in Italy before being murdered
- Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party came to power in Germany during the 1930s
Features of fascism:
- Natural selection
- The idea that some are better then others (eliminate the weak)
- Do NOT believe in equality
- Extreme feeling of nationalism (certain nations are far superior)
Capitalism
- Economic system
- The market is the defining mechanism (influences society)
- Supply and demand
- Economic growth (all are concerned with increasing material wealth
Other ideologies are included below
Political Spectrum
The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, from liberty and equality on the left to social hierarchy on the right.
We took a quiz in class answering a variety of questions to place ourselves on the political spectrum.
As you can see my values suit the more on the radical and libertarian side
The complex world of politics can be intimidating and confusing to wrap your head around at first but without knowledge on the subject you are preventing yourself from having the capability of making substantial decisions. I’m very glad we went into depth of ideologies and how they play a role in society because I feel much more confident to use my knowledge to make sense of how different countries work, decisions made around big events, and in the future which party to vote for.