POLS1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Totalitarianism, Environmentalism
Lecture 1
Left -> Right:
Left: Communism
Socialism
Centre: Liberalism
Conservatism
Right: Fascism
Horseshoe spectrum: when you get to extreme ends, they begin to look similar again
e.g. totalitarian control of some things
Old Ideologies:
Big Three
Liberalism
Socialism/Social Democracy
Conservatism
Indust. society
concerned with distribution of material goods
who gets what, why and how?
New Ideologies:
what is our identity and purpose?
Post-indust. Soc. - classes look different
concerned with recognition + social dynamics
more cross-class cutting, less coherent
e.g. feminism, ecologism, religious fundamentalism
Analysing Political Ideas
A -Account of existing order
B - model of a desired future
C - account of political action (how to go from A to B)
or:
1. Social Vision - model of a desired future
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