POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Democratic Socialism, Political Spectrum

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

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Ideologies simplify reality to make it understandable: most ideologies tend to be normative (try to change things by making it better, because they try to change things, they refer ideologies as action oriented sets of ideas. Ideologies either want to change things or they want to keep things the way they are. Ideologies are belief systems: once you accept the fundamental aspects of the ideology you can construct new reality, ex. Identifies a problem: analyzes the problem, why it exists, who created, provide a solution, identifying a problem, depending on which tradition you hold, you identify different problems, analyses the problem, provide solution. S(cid:272)ale o(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h you situate differe(cid:374)t ideologies, (cid:373)easured (cid:271)y go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374)trusio(cid:374) i(cid:374) people"s lives in economic and social sense. Liberalism calls for least amount of government interference. Democratic socialism that you need government intervention in economy: they do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t a re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374), they (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373) Communism is radical version of socialism: government owns everything, economy and society.