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Political ideologies in action features draw on important and contemporary case studies to illustrate how each ideology plays out in the real world
Perspectives on . . . features consider rival perspectives on important political themes.
POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES IN ACTION . . . DECOLONIZING THE CURRICULUM EVENTS: In March 2015, the first protests took place in the student-led Rhodes Must Fall campaign. The campaign was initially directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town that commemorated Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Although the statue was removed in April 2015, the protest movement spread to other universities, both within South Africa and elsewhere in the world. The Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford campaign called on Oriel College, Oxford University, to take down the statue of Rhodes that sits overlooking the High Street, but this demand was rejected in January 2016. The protesters objected to the statues on the grounds that they glorified a man who was an architect of apartheid and had been deeply implicated in the racist and bloody history of British colonialism. SIGNIFICANCE: The Rhodes Must Fall protests were linked to the wider goal of ‘decolonizing the
PERSPECTIVES ON . . . IDEOLOGY LIBERALS,
sanctioned belief system that claims a monopoly of truth, often through a spurious claim to be scientific. Ideology is therefore inherently repressive, even totalitarian; its prime examples are communism and fascism. CONSERVATIVES have traditionally regarded ideology as a manifestation of the arrogance of rationalism. Ideologies are elaborate systems of thought that are dangerous or unreliable because, being abstracted from reality, they establish principles and goals that lead to repression, or are simply unachievable. In this light, socialism and liberalism are clearly ideological. SOCIALISTS, following Marx, have seen ideology as a body of ideas that conceal the contradictions of class society, thereby promoting false consciousness and political passivity among subordinate classes. Liberalism is the classic ruling-class ideology. Later Marxists adopted
Those who argue that the decolonization agenda urgently needs to be applied to political ideologies claim that, as a product of the Enlightenment, ideology is intrinsically a part of the Western intellectual tradition, so separating it from non- Western cultures (Chinese, Indian, African, Islamic and so on). Such thinking is consolidated by the tendency of liberalism to operate as an ideology of Western domination. Not only do liberals insist that their values and institutions are universally
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Tensions within . . . features highlight key points of tension within each ideology.
classical liberalism
traditional conservatism
organicism
atomism
traditionalism
radicalism
authoritarianism
libertarianism
social order
economic dynamism
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Questions for discussion encourage you to reflect on some of the key issues and debates relating to each ideology, either on your own or within a group setting.
Further resources provide a list of useful texts and online resources to extend your study of ideologies beyond the book.
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INDEX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
There is a full bibliography, and in the index entries material in boxes are in bold, and the on-page definitions are in italics.
Acton, Lord (1956) Essays on Freedom and Power . London: Meridian. Adams, I. (1989) Philosophical Analysis . London and New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Adib-Moghaddam, A. (ed.) (2014) Introduction to Khomeini. New York: Cambridge University Press. Adonis, A. and Hames, T. (1994) A Conservative Perspective . Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Ball, T., Dagger, R. Ideologies and and New York Ball, T., Dagger, R and Ideologies: Routledge. Baradat, L. P. (2 Origins and I River, NJ: Pren Barber, B. (2003) Jih
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religion, anarchists’ perspective on 250 society, anarchists’ perspective on 59 Spanish Civil War and 115
legalization of 193
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