PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Groucho Marx, Marxism, Bernard Crick
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Resources - natural, war, limited or bountiful, economics, and social. Negotiating social differences to find a common solution. Seems that politics is always linked to conflict. Health care and education - make a choice which is more important, it is hard to agree on aspects of politics because seldom will everyone agree on which is more important, there is always someone that doesn"t agree. Constantly challenging how we can understand and what political language is used. Karl marx - communism, marxism, no classes and everyone is equal. Era of ideological classes is over and liberalism, no ideological challenge to liberalism. Democracy allows for opinion and that ultimately allows for clash of ideas but liberalism still conquers over the ideologies. Tuition and the prices set by the government and osap. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Politics: pertaining to citizens, derived from a greek word, polis, or state.
