POLI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: List Of Political Parties In Canada
9 Oct 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Others: green, bloc quebecois, christi can heritage, marijuana party. Left-right dimension does not capture whole political spectrum. Parties cluster around the middle to gain votes. Do not want to have a specific stance on large issues like abortion. Communism utopia idea, heaven on earth. Anarchism no government, no authority, people are good, corrupted by power. How we conceive the fundamental determines how we conduct politics. Or benign creatures inclined toward cooperation (rousseau) State of nature is violent no society possible. Solution: abdicate freedom to sovereign in exchange for security. Everyone is insecure and will kill if given the chance (out of fear) Give up freedom and rights for security. Highest form of human actualization is the polis. Only beasts (or gods) can live outside of the political community. 153 for policy difference between right and left. Plato argues that humans are inherently unequal. Conservatives (ebmund burke) argue that hierarchy is natural. What if people receive guaranteed annual income.
