POLI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Red Tory, Louis Hartz, John Diefenbaker
29 Mar 2017
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The development of key ideas in canadian politics. Left socialism -> middle liberalism -> right conservatism. Central commitments about rationalism and the individual (vs collectivism) Should allow for autonomy but not trample over it (limit state intervention) Order, tradition (religion), authority, stronger role of state. Over what has proven to work over what might work in the future. It doesn"t actually identify what is worth conserving. Maybe conservatism is about intermediate institutions which lead to the good life. Big state to level playing field -> redistribute income. You will give up your assets to further a collective goal. Except we have an account of reordering that we do not see in conservatism. Less central to the liberal account of the good life. Starts in the us by louis hartz in 1950s. To be socialist (to be communist) is to fundamentally be anti-american. Americanism, the core of america is about an ideological commitment but it can"t be socialism.
