Adjacent: Political Ideas · Ideas
Liberalism, Conservatism & Socialism
The three great modern ideologies: classical and modern liberalism (Locke, Mill, Rawls), conservatism (Burke, Oakeshott, Hayek's fusion), socialism and social democracy (Marx, Bernstein, the Nordic model), and how they map onto today's parties.
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Prereqs: The French Revolution; Marx. Next: Political economy; democracies vs autocracies. Sources: Andrew Heywood, *Political Ideologies* (7th ed., 2021); Edmund Burke, *Reflections on the Revolution in France* (1790); J.S. Mill, *On Liberty* (1859); Crash Course Government #35.Next: 1. Origins