Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Labour Power, Surplus Labour, Catharine Mackinnon
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If you think duties of justice apply only within countries, you are: a nationalist, a fascist, a libertarian, f**kin" high. It is what men think that determines how they act john stuart mill, 1861. The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. john maynard keynes, 1936. Ideas and ideologies structure political understanding, set goals, shape political systems, and act as a form of social cement. Ideologies aim to understand, interpret, explain, and evaluate the social world: they unify groups or classes around a set of beliefs and values. Ideologies are systems of ideas with their own histories. Ideology: a value-neutral definition: a set of ideas that provides the basis for organized political action, whether aimed at preserving, modifying, or overthrowing the existing system of power, any ideology has three parts, 1.