LABR 2P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alexander Kerensky, International Labour Organization, French Communist Party
4 Mar 2016
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The first world war and the working class: pre war industrial unrest and ideology. Mason, chapter 5: a great big union grand . Identify and discuss the historical significance of the bread and roses strike in. A very broad [political school of thought, or way of thinking. Thomas locke a 17th century english political philosopher. Liberalism helped create capitalism and expand individual rights. It was central to the american, french, and haitian revolutions. Liberal democracy implies a political system based on a broad citizenship, and an economic system that allows mass accumulation of wealth in private hands. This is the kind of democracy that operates in most of the world. Liberalism is reluctant to regulate capitalism, because it assumes individual pursuit of wealth produces innovation and wealth that benefits all. At its extreme, liberalism allows for only those forms of government that individuals actively support, and denies any form of collective rights.
