The Isms Notes/Practice

Liberalism

Individual freedoms

Limited government intervention

Representative government

Radicalism

abolition of all forms of government and the establishment of a society based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid

Drastic social and political change

Universal male suffrage

Redistribution of wealth

Conservatism

Tradition over change

Monarchies and aristocracy

Slow, gradual reform

Social hierarchy

Communism

Totalitarian

NO private property

Classless society

Command economy

Price control

Government ownership of resources

Taught people how to cheat and lie to survive

No religion

Socialism

The government controls natural resources

Big businesses operated by the government

Private business

Private property does exist

High taxes

The social class gap is narrower

Welfare

Capitalism

Private ownership of natural resources

Laissez Faire

Free market

Supply and demand

Invisible hand

Private property

Social classes

Gap bet classes

Is wide

Competition

profit

Neoclassicism

Inspired by ancient greece and rome

Order symmetry and simplicity

Rational and idealized art

Romanticism

Emotion over reason

Nature individualism and imagination

Nationalist themes

Realism

Depicted real life conditions

Focused on working class struggles

Reaction to romanticism

Impressionism

Light and color over detail

Capture a moment in time

Outdoor scnes, everyday life

Republicanism

Elected representatives

Popular sovereignty

Rule of law

Everyone including leaders must follow the same laws

Anarchism

No government “anarchy”

Society based on voluntary cooperation

Opposition to hierarchy

Mutual aid

Nationalism

Loyalty to one’s nation

Cultural unity

Self-determination

Rise of nation states

National identity

Governed by the people

interests of the nation should come before those of other nations

Classical liberalism

laissez-faire

Economics

Limited government

Men are born and remain free and equal in rights

Natrual rights are liberty property security and resistance to oppression (Locke)

Law is an expression of the General will (rousseau)

Democratic liberalism

Government (middle class ruling)

Social programs (government assistance programs) - like housing, health, etc

Balance between freedom and equalty