POLI 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: New Rights, Friedrich Engels, Limited Government
30 Jul 2016
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A package of interrelated ideas and beliefs about government, society, the economy, and human nature that inspire and affect political action. Each ideology provides a different perspective that is used to understand and evaluate how the world actually works. Most ideologies also provide a vision of what the world should be like and propose a means of political action to achieve their objectives. The term ideology originated to describe efforts to develop a science of ideas. However, the term is often used to describe certain sets of ideas and ways of thinking in a negative way. For karl marx, the key developer of communism, ideology was the instrument of the ruling class used to justify the harsh realities of the capitalist system. Others use the term to describe what are viewed as extremist perspectives such as communism and fascism. Individuals able to think and act according to reason.
