WEEK 4 - 2

Question 1

structure of ideologies

Answer 1

• definition
• key texts
• main tenets
• misc.

Question 2

republicanism definition

Answer 2

• rejects corruption, domination, and tyrannical rule to embrace freedom
• secularism
• citizen duties central to good political life of republic

Question 3

republicanism key texts

Answer 3

• Jean Jacques Rousseau “Social Contract” 1762

- American Constitution 1776

Question 4

republicanism main tenets

Answer 4

• civic virtue protects threats to republic
• anti-monarchical
• secular
• defend at all costs

Question 5

republicanism today

Answer 5

American republican party

• emphasis freedom of people
• emphasis duty, military duty

French/Quebec Republicanism

• secularist
• invisibility of Republicanism
• anti multiculturalism

Question 6

conservatism definition

Answer 6

ideology that

• avoids large scale radical change
• conservative tradition
• maintain existing institutions

Question 7

conservatism key texts

Answer 7

Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France” 1790

Question 8

conservatism key tenets

Answer 8

• anti-revolutionary/republic
• organic society view
• skepticism of change
• pessimistic of human nature
• inequality and hierarchy

Question 9

Neo-Conservatism

Answer 9

defends fiscal (= economic Neo-liberalism) and social conservatism

Question 10

socialism definition

Answer 10

ideology that

• believes capitalist economy creates poverty
• replaced by more common ownership

Question 11

socialism key texts

Answer 11

Karl Marx “Communist Manifesto” 1848

Eduard Bernstein “Evolutionary Socialism” 1899

Question 12

socialism main tenets

Answer 12

• economics/tech determines history
• class conflict in society
• capitalism must be replaced
• “The Utopia” new Econ./political system

Question 13

socialism today

Answer 13

• marxists (cuba)
• socialists (Greece, ecuador)
• social democrats (NDP)

Question 14

Picketty socialism solutions to income and wealth inequality

Answer 14

• 80% income tax to super-rich
• global accumulated wealth tax
• education easily accessible