PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Social Movements, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat
11 Oct 2020
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Po101 lecture 1: what went right and what went wrong, new social movements, economic changes, the end of the cold war, brain sciences. They both have preconditions and assumptions both have fundamental beliefs . Both are the basis of action for people ideology? ideas designed to Present an ideal vison of what the political order should look like prescribe a means to transform the existing into the ideal. Seek to promote a particular social and political order. Communist: degree of change o direction of change o method of change. Fascist: shaped by the enlightenment, liberalism and socialism (but also anarchism) in support of its values. o conservatism and fascism rallying against it. Contemporary: environmentalism and feminism- less optimistic about offering an overarching explanation of the world, issue oriented liberalism. Ultimate authority: it is in their interest to relinquish their rights to the monarch in return for protection. Without the protection the life is nasty, brutish, and short .
