Week 2: Political Idealogies

Question 1

belief systems that provide people with a perspective on the proper role of elected officials which types of public policies should be prioritized, and how the various elements of society should be arranged.

Answer 1

political idealogies

Question 2

left

Answer 2

liberalism

Question 3

right

Answer 3

conservatism

Question 4

middle

Answer 4

moderates

Question 5

list the 10 political idealogies

Answer 5

1. liberalism
2. conservatism
3. moderates
4. communism
5. socialis,
6. national socialism (nazism)
7. fascism
8. anarchism
9. libertarianism
10. marxism

Question 6

an ideology based on the communal ownership of all property and a classless structure, with economic production and distribution to be directed and regulated by means of an authoritative economic plan that supposedly embodies the interests of the community as a whole

Answer 6

communism

Question 7

an ideology based on collective or governmental ownership and democratic management of the essential means of the production and distribution of goods. It can often be difficult to define, since different people have different ideas about what a this type of society would look like. .

Answer 7

socialism

Question 8

rejects liberalism, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, and stresses the subordination of the individual to the state and strict obedience to leaders. It emphasizes the right of the strong to rule the weak, the inequality of individuals and “races”, and the racial superiority of White Anglo-Saxons (Aryans).

Answer 8

nazism

Question 9

tends to celebrate masculinity, youth, mystical unity, and the power of violence. Often, but not always, it promotes racial superiority doctrines, ethnic persecution, imperialist expansion, and genocide.

Answer 9

fascism

Question 10

considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.

Answer 10

anarchism

Question 11

usually identified as the most anti-authoritarian of all political ideologies

Answer 11

anarchism

Question 12

believe that any legitimate government should be small and should play only the most minimal possible role in economic, social, and cultural life.

Answer 12

libertarianism

Question 13

all injustices and inequalities in the world can be traced to the class struggle, or the inequalities inherent to the capitalist system. They may consider themselves socialists or communists as there exists much overlap between these ideologies.

Answer 13

marxism