POLI 222 Lecture 2: Founding Ideas
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Particular understandings of federalism have structured our politics. To what degree does political culture explain things, is it a variable, and what is the thing we want to explain. Defeat of political nationalism: moment for a particular kind of canada, defined by a particular kind of conservatism that makes you think, if canada is truly about being conservative, if we loose this do we seize to be. How ideas have changed, the fragment theory and how we explain our political culture(immigration story) Classical socialism: primarily about the collective championing the interests of the individual. Opinions about the distribution of resources across a society. Privileging of a collective/community set of values over individualism(not a strict denial though), but it is not held out as a strict/most important ideal. Evl and injustice comes from privileging the individual over the interests of them all.