MULT10018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gaetano Mosca, Neoliberalism, Elitism
28 Jul 2018
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What kind of power does the state hold? (ref power-over) This normative relationship to power is exclusive to the state. This absolutist nature of the state is sovereignty. History of state in form and thought. Liberalism - the dominant ideology of modern political thought. Conservatism - tend to have an organic political view, thinking of a political body as a collective group of organisms that work together in their different, separate roles towards a common goal. Fundamentally suspicious of individualism and the idea of flat equality of a political society (evenly distributed power) Instead venerate customs and traditions around the distribution of power in society, inherited rights to certain things - like classes. Not afraid of deployment of strong state powers. Socialism - socialists are associated with a pro-state (statist) model. Under the marxist analysis, the modern capitalist state is not autonomous from the economic sphere, but determined by economic interests and so is a product of the econ sphere.
