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POLI 307: Political Ideologies (Rev. 5&6) Report a Broken Link

Political Science 307: Political Ideologies surveys the origins and development of modern political ideologies in their historical, cultural, and socio-economic contexts beginning with the origins of liberalism followed by responses to it that include capitalism, conservatism, socialism, Marxism, and nationalism. Discussion of contemporary ideological developments extends to both Western and non-Western society over the past 300 to 400 years.

Part 1—Ideas to Ideologies

Chapter 2: The Emergence of “Modern” Ideologies
Hobbes, T. (1958). Excerpts from Leviathan: Parts I and II. With an introduction by H. W. Schneider. (pp. 106, 107, 109–110, 115, 119–120, 142, 143, 170, 171, 172–173, 175–176). New York, NY: Bobbs-Merrill. (Original work published in 1651).
Locke, J. (1963). Excerpts from The works of John Locke: A new edition, corrected. In ten volumes. (Vol. 5, pp. 339–340, 341–342, 348–349, 350, 351, 353–354, 356–357). Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag. (Original compilation published in 1801).
Rousseau, J-J. (1973). Excerpts from The social contract and discourses. (G. D. H. Cole, Trans. and Ed.). (pp. 83, 85, 86–87, 88, 89, 96–97, 120–121, 122–123, 138, 145, 315). London, UK: J. M. Dent & Sons. (Original work published in 1762).
Smith, A. (1937). Excerpts from An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. E. Cannan (Ed.). (pp. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 100, 121–122, 129, 134, 135, 356–357, 384, 385, 421, 423, 460–461). New York, NY: Modern Library. (Original work published in 1776).
Bentham, J. (1931). Excerpts from The theory of legislation. C. K. Ogden (Ed.). (pp. 1, 2, 16, 94–95, 97–98, 99, 113, 114, 115, 120, 123, 517, 519, 520). London, UK: Kegan Paul. (Basis for original work published in 1789).

Part 2—Liberalism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3: Liberalism, Capitalism, Democracy
National Constituent Assembly of France. (1789). Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Retrieved from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Second Continental Congress of the United States. (1776). Declaration of Independence. Retrieved from https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Madison, J. (1787). Federalist no. 10: The union as a safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection. The New York Packet. Retrieved from https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-10
Mill, J. S. (1859). Excerpt from On Liberty. Retrieved from http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/world_civ/worldcivreader/world_civ_reader_2/mill.html
Chapter 4: Anti-Liberal Ideologies
Burke, E. (1790). Excerpts from Reflections on the revolution in France. (pp. 28–30, 51–52). Retrieved from http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/burke/revfrance.pdf  
Nietzsche, F. (1921). Excerpt from The Genealogy of morals. (H. B. Samuel, Trans.). Retrieved from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Genealogy_of_Morals/First_Essay (Original work published in 1887).
Chapter 5: Anti-Capitalist Ideologies
Owen, R. (1993). Excerpt from Selected works of Robert Owen: The development of socialism (Vol. 2, pp. 372–374). G. Claeys (Ed.). London, UK: William Pickering.
Owen, R. (1993). Excerpt from Selected works of Robert Owen: The book of the New Moral World (Vol. 3, pp. 282-283, 285). G. Claeys (Ed.). London, UK: William Pickering.
Proudhon, P.-J. (1840). Excerpt from What is property? An inquiry into the principle of right and of government. Retrieved from https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen#toc42
Bakunin, M. (1971). “Revolutionary catechism.” (S. Dolgoff, Trans. and Ed.). Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/1866/catechism.htm (Original work published in 1866).
Engels, F. (1880). Excerpts from Socialism: Utopian and scientific. Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm
Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1848). Excerpt from “Bourgeois and proletarians.” In Manifesto of the Communist party. Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1848). Excerpt from “Proletarians and communists.” In Manifesto of the Communist party. Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm

Part 3—The Age of Mass Ideologies: The “Short” Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: Contemporary Liberal Democracy
Rawls, J. (1985). Justice as fairness: Political not metaphysical. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 14(3), 223–251.
Von Hayek, F. (1944). The Road to Serfdom. Retrieved from http://0-ebookcentral.proquest.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca-ebooks/detail.action?docID=242191
Saul, J. R. (1993). Excerpt from The hijacking of capitalism. In Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (pp. 358–362). Toronto, ON: Penguin.
Thatcher, M. (1978, May 6). The ideals of an open society. [Speech to the Bow Group]. Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103674
Falwell, J. (1980). Listen, America!. Retrieved from http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch36_02.htm
Chapter 8: Two Variants of Socialism
Bernstein, E. (1993). Excerpts from The preconditions of socialism. (H. Tudor, Trans. and Ed.). (pp. 1–5, 6–8). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/eduard-bernstein-the-preconditions-of-socialism-1897-1899.pdf (Original work published in 1899).
Blair, T. (1994). Socialism. [Issue 565 of Fabian pamphlet]. Retrieved from http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/objects/lse:har787wav
Chapter 9: Orthodox Marxism-Leninism
Lenin, V. I. (1902). What is to be done? Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/download/what-itd.pdf
Trotsky, L. (1931). What is the permanent revolution?: Basic postulates. In The Permanent Revolution. Retrieved from https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/pr10.htm
Tito, J. B. (1967). Program of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. In R. V. Daniels (Ed.), Marxism and Communism: Essential readings (pp. 152–159). New York, NY: Random House.
Chapter 10: Fascism and National Socialism
Gentile, G. (1928). The philosophic basis of fascism. Foreign Affairs, 6(2), 290–304. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20028606?seq=10#page_scan_tab_contents
Hitler, A. (1941). Mein Kampf. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/meinkampf035176mbp
Chapter 11: Indigenous Voices in the Global South
Nyerere, J. (1970). Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism. Retrieved from http://www.nathanielturner.com/ujamaanyerere.htm
Gandhi, M. K. (1968). Excerpts from The selected works of Mahatma Gandhi (Vol. 6, pp. 162–163, 164, 169, 170–171, 172, 179–180,181, 182–183, 185, 186–187). S. Narayan (Ed.). Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Publishing House.
Fanon, F. (1963). The Wretched of the Earth. (C. Farrington, Trans.). New York, NY: Grove Press. Retrieved from https://thebaluch.com/documents/0802150837%20-%20FRANTZ%20FANON%20-%20The%20Wretched%20of%20the%20Earth.pdf
Khomeini, R. (1981). Introduction. Islam and Revolution. (H. Algar, Trans.). (pp. 27–39, 150–152). Berkeley, CA: Mizan Press. Retrieved from https://goaloflife.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/ayatollah-sayyed-ruhollah-khomeini-islam-and-revolution.pdf
Gutiérrez, G. (1982). Excerpts from “Liberation, Theology, and Proclamation.” In Q. L. Quade (Ed.), The Pope and revolution (pp. 17–21, 23–24, 29–30, 32–33, 34, 185–186). Washington D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center.  

Part 4—Ideological Currents in Our Time

Chapter 12: The Search for Community
Bush, G. H. W. (1991, September 30). The United Nations in a new era. US Department of State Dispatch, 2(39), 718–722. Retrieved from http://0-go.galegroup.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=atha49011&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA11497329&asid=3fc55df92f419a5373d846579756f9eb
United States Government. (2002). National security strategy of the United States of America, September 2002. Retrieved from http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nss/nss_sep2002.pdf
Obama, B. H. (2009, December 10). Nobel lecture: A just and lasting peace. Retrieved from http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/obama-lecture_en.html
Obama, B. H. (2009, June 4). President Obama’s speech in Cairo: A new beginning. Retrieved from https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/newbeginning/transcripts/
Roy, A. (2004, January 16). Do turkeys enjoy Thanksgiving? Retrieved from http://www.thehindu.com/2004/01/18/stories/2004011800181400.htm
Klein, N. (2001). Reclaiming the commons. New Left Review, 9. Retrieved from https://0-newleftreview-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/II/9/naomi-klein-reclaiming-the-commons?ticket=ST-661356-cFXLB6JCYV0nWNalXTmP-cas
Hobsbawm, E. (1991). Out of the ashes. Marxism Today, 18–23.
Graeber, D. (2002). The new anarchists. New Left Review, 13. Retrieved from https://0-newleftreview-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/II/13/david-graeber-the-new-anarchists?ticket=ST-668321-AQHy0DrwrVgPbziFz9JU-cas
Chapter 13: The Rise of an Eclectic Left
Wittman, C. (1970). Refugees from America: A gay manifesto. Retrieved from http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wittmanmanifesto.html
Pope Francis. (2015). Encyclical letter Laudato si’ of the Holy Father Francis On Care for Our Common Home. Retrieved from http://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si_en.pdf
Schumacher, E. F. (1973). Peace and Permanence. In Small is beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered.
'Peace and Permanence' is chapter 2 in Part 1 of the above book.
Sachs, W. (1994). Global ecology and the shadow of “development.” In W. Sachs (Ed.). Global ecology: A new arena of political conflict (pp. 3–4, 8–12, 14–21). Halifax, NS: Fernwood.
Kreps, B. (1973). Radical feminism 1. In A. Koedt, E. Levine, & A. Rapone (Eds.). Radical feminism (pp. 234–239). Retrieved from http://feminist-reprise.org/docs/RF/RF_1.pdf
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chapter of the New American Movement. (1984). Socialist feminism: The inseparability of gender and class oppression. In A. M. Jaggar, & P. S. Rothenberg (Eds.). Feminist frameworks: Alternative theoretical accounts of the relations between men and women (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Whitaker, C. (2003). The WSF as open space. Retrieved from http://www.choike.org/documentos/wsf_s302_whitaker.pdf