Poli Flashcards
Equality of _____ (socialism)
Condition
Equality of _____ (Liberalism)
Satus
Tenets of Socialism
Class Equality of conditions Collective Ownership Materialism Human Goodness Change
Explanatory Function (Socialism)
Economic and class relations
Evaluative Function (socialism)
Sharpness of class divisions in Society
Orientative Function (Socialism)
Position in class structure
Programmatic Function (Socialism)
Bring about a classless society
Agent (Socialism)
Working Class
Goal (Socialism)
Fulfill Basic Needs
Obstacle (Socialism)
Capitalism
Plato’s precursor to socialism
Ruling class and sharing
What is human history to Hegel?
Becoming more free and gaining awareness of that freedom
Ideas and ideals clash; new ideas emerge
Hegel Dialectic
What is actual is rational and…
What is rational is actual
• Slave wants master to recognize his humanity but if the master does he cannot still be a master. Master can never achieve humanity because his recognition comes from someone who is not an equal. Master is less free than slave
Lord and Bonsman/ Master and Slave dialectic
Materialist conception of history
Struggle of classes
Forced to sell labour; stifled creativity, workers detached from one another, loss of power to create and enjoy beauty
Alienation (Marx)
When can true freedom exist for Marx?
Classless society
System that legitimizes and justifies the arrangements and institutions of that society (Marx
Ideological superstructure
Means of Labour ( marx)
Material forces of production
Subject of labour (Marx)
Relations of production
What does the working class suffer from that means they will not rebel according to Marx?
False Consicousness
2 Things Engels thought differently than Marx
Scientific Socialism
Materialism
Chief driving force of historical development (Lenin)
Class Struggle
Purpose of Vanguard (Lenin)
Educate workers
(Lenin) Relation must exist between workers and _____
Peasents
(Lenin) Socialism in one country leads to ______
Messianism
Internal party democracy (Lenin)
Democratic centralism
Last or highest stage of capitalism (Lenin)
Imperialism
According to Lenin, what do the revisionist replace the centrality of class struggle with?
Political Freedom
(Stalin) The Communist party itself is infected with _____
False consciousness
To justify all of his policies, Stalin used the excuse of…
Dialectical Materialism
Braver to _____ than step forward (Stalin)
retreat
(Mao) Need to be ____ or the revolution will fail
violent
______ is reserved for imperialist dogs (Mao)
Benevolence
Why does the state exist? (Mao)
Re-educate
Transform counter-revolutionaries through _______
Forced Labour
Ideologically pure and correct (Mao)
Red
Emphasize increased agricultural and industrial production (Mao)
Expert
(Bernstein) 3 Avenues for socialism to succeed
Moral
Political
Economic
Who started the Independent Labour Party
J.S. Woodsworth
What did the Independent Labour Party Become?
CCF
Will not rest until capitalism is erradicated and replaced with socialist planning
Regina Manifesto
Free health care in Canada
Tommy Douglas
NDP Goal
Social Justice for the country
Who’s associated with the Third Way?
Tony Blair
Obstacle (Nationalism)
Foreign Domination
Agent (Nationalism)
The nation
Goal (Nationalism)
Independent Nation state
The attachment one feels for people who share commonalities; something a group shares which differentiates them from others
Ethnicity
What provides the strongest commonality for an ethnicity?
Overcoming Challanges
Nations and states should be coextensive in their boundaries: Their nation should have a state corresponding to it; and any state that does not express a nation or national idea is potentially illegitimate
Principles of Self-determination
2 Types of Nationalism
Ethnic and Communitarian Patriotic or Civic
First emphasized nationalism in a group instead of individual
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Who believes individual finds meaning in their life from being connected to nation into which they are born?
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Who said giving every nation their own state would lead to everyone being happy?
Mazzini
“Our struggle will be victorious, long live Quebec”
FLQ Manifesto
Obstacle (Fascism)
Humanism, equality, class, reason
Agent (Fascism)
Nation-state
Goal (Fascism)
Glory and power for the state
Explanatory Function (Fascism)
Heroes/Villains
Evaluative Function (Fascism)
Unity and strength of the volk
Orientative Function (Fascism)
The nation/people; organic
Programmatic Function (Fascism)
Believe, fight, obey; all within the state
Tenets shared by Liberals and Socialists
1- Humanism 2- Rationalism 3- Secularism 4- Progressivism 5- Universalism
Where does the word Fascism come from
Fasciare
What does fasciare mean?
To Fasten or Bind
Classless society is impossible due to historical, logical and bureaucratic realities in political life
Elitism
emotion, desire and instinct are more powerful and relevant actors than reason
Irrationalism
People are more often moved to action by political myths than by appeals to reason (torchlight parades)
Georges Sorel
(Fascism) Freedom to _____, to _____, to _____
fight, believe, obey
Fascist conception of freedom
Service is freedom
Fascist economic system
Corporatism
The true test of manly virtue (Mussolini)
War
Who said Race is an emotion?
Mussolini
Fascism + Racism=
Nazism
• Resources grow at an ever increasing genetic rate while resources grow at only a steady arithmetical rate
Malthus Law
Fuhrerprinzip
Leadership principle
Who came up with the concept of general will and an aversion to special interests that might challenge this
J.J. Rousseau
Name the ideology shaped by what it opposes.
Populism
Name one thing populism specifically dislikes
Intermediates
Tenets of Populism
Equality of citizens Direct democracy The "people" General will Self-determination Freedom
Agent (populism)
People
Goal (populism)
General Will
Obstacle (populism)
Self-interested
The progress of art and science has made life worse
First Discourse- Rousseau
Mankind began in a state of nature good and innocent. The advent of private property has distorted men to such a degree that there exists inequality
Second Discourse Rousseau
Rousseau’s solution to the plague of modernity
Social Contract
Opinion that exists within the population
Will of some
Minority or majority opinion
Will of all
What is best for citizenry
General will
Populism conception of freedom
Acting in a way that benefits the people; self-mastery of the people
Populists support these measures that empower people to formulate and express their will
Direct Voting
Which side of the spectrum did populism start in the US and Canada
Left
Explanatory (Populism)
Interest groups interrupt the general will from success
Evaluative (Populism)
If selfish interests are opposed, the people will be better off
Orientative (Populsim
Individual interests are tied to the general will
Programmatic (Populism)
Defeat special interests
Populism and the democratic ideal
Direct democracy as pure democracy