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Political Ideologies
- Conservatism: The state as an organic entity
- Key Features
- Distrusts theoretical politics and ideology, preferring a pragmatic approach.
- People are born into a society from which they gain their identity, by
comparing and contrasting themselves with others. Therefore our society is
a key component of our identity (contrasting with the liberal "individual").
- The individual is only one small component of a whole; by themselves
their ability to reason and make appropriate choices is compromised.
- Governance is complex and a difficult skill to master; we are better off relying on the centuries of
experience and constructions that precede us by pursuing gradual reform, rather than drastic change.
- Distrusts theoretical politics and ideology, preferring a pragmatic approach.
- Key Features
- Classical Liberalism: The state as a neutral umpire
- The state as oppressor
- Marxism
- Anarchism
- Marxism
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