Well I wasn't gonna go into specifics in the previous post, but then I realized the blatant irony in that, so I dug out my Political Ideologies textbook from my Poli Sci class. Keep in mind that some of these differ in definition, while others differ only in connotation. I think my favorite is the fascist definition of 'freedom'.
btw, Autonomy means governing yourself, self-determinism, and independence.
Perspectives on....
History:
Liberals - gradual progress
Conservatives - tradition
Fascists - decline from the 'golden age', yet cyclical
Religion (but not necessarily 'Spirituality'):
Liberals - a private matter linked to personal choice
Conservatives - a valuable source of stability, desires no separation of church and state
Anarchists - an institutionalized source of oppression
Fundamentalists - essential and unchallengeable
Nature:
Liberals - a source to satisfy human needs, only valuable when transformed by human labor
Conservatives - feel superior over nature, view it as cruel and harsh
Socialists - like Liberals, view nature as a resource
Anarchists - a model of simplicity, harmony, growth and balance
Fascists- brutal struggle, cyclical regeneration, primal instincts
Feminists - creative and benign
Ecologists - an interconnected whole, a source of knowledge and 'right living', fulfillment coming from closeness and respect for nature, not from the attempt to dominate it
Authority:
Liberals - rises from below through consensus of the governed
Conservatives - a natural necessity that comes from above, beneficial and necessary
Anarchists - unnecessary, destructive, oppressive, and exploitative
Fascists - a manifestation of personal leadership, should be absolute, unquestionable, and totalitarian
Fundamentalists - a reflection of unequal access to religious wisdom
Economy:
Liberals - a vital part of civil society, prefer a market based on property, competition, and material incentives
Socialists - prefer common ownership and absolute social equality
Anarchists - depends solely on branch of anarchism, believe it or not, there are anarcho-communists, as well as anarcho-capitalists. Other branches reject an form of an economy (hey, that's me!)
Ecologists - condemn most markets as growth-obsessed and environmentally unstable
Equality:
Conservatives - view society as naturally hierarchal
Fascists - believe that humankind is marked by radical inequality, between leaders and followers, and between various races and nations
Socialists - a fundamental value
Anarchists - political equality, an equal and absolute right to personal autonomy
Liberals - moral equality, all people are born equal
Feminists - sexual equality, equal rights
Ecologists - biocentric equality, all forms of life have an equal right to live
Society:
Liberals - a collection of individuals
Conservatives - an organism, a living entity
Marxists - characterized by class struggle
Anarchists - characterized by unregulated and natural harmony, based on the natural human disposition towards cooperation and sociability (but of course, not all ideologies agree on what Human Nature is)
Nationalists - cultural or ethnic distinctions
Fascists - believe that individual existence is meaningless without dedication to the common 'good'
Feminists - patriarchy with artificial divisions
Human Nature:
Liberals - self-seeking, self-reliable, but reasonable and capable of development (through education)
Conservatives - essentially security-seeking, rational unreliable, morally corrupt creatures, drawn to the familiar, tried, and tested
Socialists - social creatures shaped more by nurture than nature
Anarchists - sociable, cooperative, self-interested, but rationally enlightened
Fascists - ruled by the will and other non-rational drives, seeking social belonging based on nation or race, the masses being fit only to serve and obey
Ecologists - believe that materialism, greed, and egoism reflect the extent to which humans have become alienated from the oneness of life
and last but not least....
Freedom:
Liberals - give priority to freedom as the supreme individualist value
Conservatives (George W. Bush) - the willing recognition of duties and responsibilities
Socialists - self-fulfillment achieved through creative labor or cooperative social interaction
Anarchists - the achievement of personal autonomy, self-willed and self-directed, incompatible with any form of political authority
Fascists (George W. Bush) - reject and form of individual liberty as nonsense and propose that 'true' freedom means unquestioning submission to the will of the leader
Ecologists - inner freedom arises from the achievement of oneness, self-realization, self-actualization, and the release of the ego
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