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Feminism - Alexa It is the political, structural, cultural, or economic movement aimed at equalizing rights and legal protections for females everywhere. Feminists are concerned with gender-concerning issues as well as the movement that promotes gender equality for women and campaigns for women’s rights. ======



// Women burning bras in the seventies as a rebellious act against sexual prejudice was an example of feminism. //



Fascists advocate the creation of a single party state.. Fascist governments forbid and suppress openness and opposition to the fascist state and the fascist movement. Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalism and liberal democracies for its creation, and accuses communists of exploiting the concept. Fascism fashioned itself as the "complete opposite of Marxian Socialism" by rejecting the economic and material conception of history, the fundamental belief of fascism being that human beings are motivated by glory and heroism rather than economic motives, in contrast to the worldview of capitalism and socialism.

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Anarchism. Lindsay Robertson.
** Anarchism is the political belief that society should have no government, laws, police, or other authority, but should be a free association of all its members. There are many types and traditions of anarchism, not all of which are mutually exclusive. Strains of anarchism have been divided into the categories of socialist **** and individualist anarchism **** or similar dual classifications ** . Ex.

Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a complicated set of ideas that are incredibly hard to just simply define. It is used in many different subject areas such as arts, literature, sociology, film, communications, technology and fashion. Modernism in itself was basically a movement in arts, music, literature and drama which rejected conventional standards of art. Simply, it redefined how art was to be made, appreciated and understood. Postmodernism, like modernism, also favours reflexivity(referring back to itself), self-consciousness, fragmentation, discontinuity, ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject. It differs from modernism in the sense that it has a different look at these subjects. It generally takes them in a much darker ideology looking at the world in fragmentation of tragedy. It looks at things in a very sad way that says the world is simply bleak and should be appreciated as that. Not to be celebrated, but understood. In the simplest terms, the modernism movement was the idea of the 'American Dream' where everything was set out and made to accommodate excess and comfort. Postmodernism is basically an irony, an opposite, almost a joke through that term where functionality is king. When you think of the future, you think of sleek silver buildings, walls, etc. Picture a single chair in a white-walled room. This is postmodernism in effect; what is needed, and nothing more.

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Mac Phillips

Environmentalism
Michael Columna-Sheldon

​  A political party that claims to be the voice of the common person; believing in the rights, wisdoms, and virtues of the population. The Populist Party stands to help the common, middle class have a say over the elite in society. For example, the US had a "Populist Party" in the late 19th Century. They didn't last long because of their single issue platform. -Lucy

Imperialism; A country's policy of extending their authority over foreign countries. They may do so economically, politically or socially. Example; One cause of World War I was Great-Britain's concern about Germany's imperialistic ways. They were trying to expand their empire and control more countries around the world which caused Great-Britain to feel threatened. -Catriona.

Nativism Garrett Dronfield
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2) Nativism favors the interests of a certain established inhabitants of a nation or area as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such individuals or their culture. It Nativism is usually means opposing immigration or lowering the legal or political standard of an ethnic group or culture, because the “groups” are considered to be alien or hostile to the natural culture that is in a surrounding area, and are assumed to be not assimilated. Nativism has become a general term for the opposition of immigration based on the fears that the immigrants will change and distort the existing couture in the area.

3)In World War I, Citizens from German and Austrian decent had there right to vote taken away from them. Also tens of thousands of Ukrainians were all rounded up and put into concentration camps.

Marxism is a theory created by Karl Marx that seeks the elimination of the idea of private property in order to gain control of the economy by taking it from the wealthy for the benefit of the working class. His philosophy of history was called "historical materialism" in which his goal was to bring about the end of history, by means of an eventual perfect. The eventual perfect that Marx saw was called "Communism" The three main beliefs of Marxism are: The dialetical and materialist concept of history, The critique of capitalism and Advocacy of proletarian revolution. Marxism is no longer existing in society today but a form of it is. When Marx created the political ideology he had an eventual goal that it would become communism. Communism is now a dominant force and strong political belief. Marxism evolved from capitalism into Marxism then into Leninism untill finally it became Communism. Communism exists in many countries today and many believe it is the most successful form of government. Communism exists in Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Many countries are considered different things such as Stalinism or Socialism but both of those essenitally derrive from the concept of Communism be it more passive or less

__Militarism__ - Hope Evans

Definition- The belief of a government or people to maintain a strong military force. Example- Militarism was one of the main causes of WW1 when there was an increase in the militaries of Germany, Great Britain and Russia. This increase in militarism helped push the countries involved into war.

=Humanism! - Naomi Mazerolle= Definition: A movement in the Renaissance that rejectect all religious beliefs and focuses on the value and well being of all individuals. Humans needs are the primary importance. Example: The United Nations is specific example of Humanism at work, they promote education, science, and culture ; And also Health Care. They are responsible for wiping out small pox.

**__Terrorism__** Terrorism is the use of violence, threats and extreme acts that provoke fear for political or religious purposes. It is usually an extreme act on civilians that involve many casualties. It is done to get a strong point across by extremists that will do anything to achieve their goals.

An Example of Terrorism is Al Queda's attack of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Dylan Karleen

=Jingoism - Lydia Kim = Jingoism can defined as an extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foregon policy and also Chauvinism is synonym for Jingoism. For example: If person A insult person B's country, B will fight with person A because person B loved his/her country.

Communism Communism is defined as the system or political theory in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all its members. Communism is a form of government described by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in their writings. Communism is basically a society of total equality where the government works to serve its citizens. Private property, resources and production of these resources are all property of the people. Taxes are nonexistent except for the extremely wealthy and there is no police brutality. This form of government and political theory opposes capitalism and is for the working class and commoners. Capitalism favours corporations where as in Communism the government controls the commodities and prevents the squandering of resources by corporations for their own benefit and greed. In Communism healthcare and housing is free and the media has complete freedom. Eventually in a communist reign, pay and wages will be eliminated and people will be taught to work for the common good. There will be no discrimination and racism as communism is centered around equality. Communism has been utilized by Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Malaysia, Cuba, North Korea and others. Communism has consistently failed basically because of lack of economic stability. For example, communism failed in Russia for the same reason it fails in other regions: there’s no money in it, at least not for the people who need it most. It seems like a good idea on paper but every time it has been incorporated into a government it has failed. Simply because of the lack of economic stability that comes with it. -Cory Sutherland

Totalitarianism: absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.

Basically totalitarianism is ‘a system of rule, driven by an ideology, that seeks direction of all aspects of public activity, political, economic and social, and uses to that end, at least to a degree, propaganda and terror’. Although this seems like a lot its very general. To have a full understanding, you would have to know its history. This will tell you that when this state of control was just a thought it wasn’t intended to be the final ways of any form of governing. The word is thought to have first been used by the philosopher, Giovanni Gentile in 1925, during the earlier years of Italian Fascist rule. To describe a comprehensive socio-political system. Mussolini happily used the word, and while in general it usefully describes Nazism and Stalinism, Hitler avoided its use and Stalin saw it as applicable to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany but not to Russia. The concept gained wider currency and became prominent in schoolbooks during the post-1945 Cold War period. It was at that time that it was defined more fully, mostly by US historians Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski in Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (1956). Friedrich and Brzezinski‘s theoretical model, derived from the history of the twentieth century, had six key features. · An official ideology to which general adherence was demanded, the ideology intended to achieve a ‘perfect final stage of mankind‘. · A single mass party, hierarchically organized, closely interwoven with the state bureaucracy and typically led by one man. · Monopolistic control of the armed forces. · A similar monopoly of the means of effective mass communication. · A system of terroristic police control. · Central control and direction of the entire economy.

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by Tanisha

Neo-conservatism

By: Bruce J. Graham Neo-conservatism is political philosophy that emerged in the United States of America, and which supports using American economic and military power to bring [|liberalism], [|democracy] , and [|human rights] to other countries. The term “// neoconservative” // was used at one time as a criticism against proponents of [|American modern liberalism] who had "moved to the right". //__Origin__// "New" conservatives initially approached this view from the [|political left]. The forerunners of neo-conservatism were most often socialists or sometimes liberals who strongly supported the Allied cause in World War II, and who were influenced by the [|Great Depression] -era ideas of the [|New Deal], [|trade unionism] , and [|Trotskyism] , particularly those who followed the political ideas of [|Max Shachtman]. Some of the mid-20th century [|New York Intellectuals] were forebears of neo-conservatism.

MARXISM Marxism is a theory created by Karl Marx that seeks the elimination of the idea of private property in order to gain control of the economy by taking it from the wealthy for the benefit of the working class. His philosophy of history was called "historical materialism" in which his goal was to bring about the end of history, by means of an eventual perfect. The eventual perfect that Marx saw was called "Communism" The three main beliefs of Marxism are: The dialetical and materialist concept of history, The critique of capitalism and Advocacy of proletarian revolution. Marxism is no longer existing in society today but a form of it is. When Marx created the political ideology he had an eventual goal that it would become communism. Communism is now a dominant force and strong political belief. Marxism evolved from capitalism into Marxism then into Leninism untill finally it became Communism. Communism exists in many countries today and many believe it is the most successful form of government. Communism exists in Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Many countries are considered different things such as Stalinism or Socialism but both of those essenitally derrive from the concept of Communism be it more passive or less.

Anthony W.

= Leninism =



Leninism uses the political and social economic beliefs of Vladimir Lenin. Leninism is derived from Marxism. Lenin died in 1924, Stalin and Trotsky were comrades of Lenin and his beliefs and ideologies helped them become the leaders of the Communist Party in Russia at the time, the USSR. This political ideology is the premise and practice of the dictatorship of the proletariat, working class. An example of Leninism is the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin led this revolution as a part of the Russian revolution. Followers of this revolution are called Bolshevists.

Colin C.