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| The making of a common decision that binds an entire group. |
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| Do most individuals need group membership? |
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| Group membership according to the state, from most basic to least basic |
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| Family/Gang, Church, Peers, Interest Groups, Political Parties |
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| Number of countries in the world |
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| Pros and Cons of Group Membership |
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Pros: Protection, Status, Improvement
Cons: Time, Energy, Money, Compromise, Stress |
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| X gets Y to do what X wants |
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| X uses force, violence, threat of either on Y |
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| Limitations of Coercive Power |
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| Retaliation, Bigger Bullies, High Cost |
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| X convinces Y that X and Y want the same thing |
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| Limitations of Persuasive Power |
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| Different Values, Culture |
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| X shows Y that Y will be better off |
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| Limitations of Incentive Power |
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| X is Poor, Different Values, Culture |
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| The observer observes X come to power |
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| The observer came too late to see X come to power |
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| System of Values and Beliefs, Evaluation of Institutions and Processes, Accepted as Fact or Truth by Members of the Group, A Picture of the World as it is and as it Should be, Organizes complex universe into something simple and understandable |
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| Process of State Institution |
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| Process of Government Institution |
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| Process of Legislative Institution |
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| Process of Executive Institution |
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| Title, Author, Date of important books on the Apocalypse |
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End of Ideology - Daniel Bell, 1960
End of History - Francis Fukuyama, 1989 |
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| 35 hour work week, national healthcare |
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| Free Market, Corporate, State |
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| Inventor of Free Market Capitalism |
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| How anarchists view others |
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| Society is to blame, man is born free, but everywhere in chains |
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| How 17th Century English Liberals view others |
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| power corrupts; restrain the rascals with constitution and election |
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| Thomas Hobbes on Natural Rights |
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| Second Treatise on Government |
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| John Locke on Natural Rights |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| Thomas Jefferson on Natural Rights |
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| Life, Property, and many others |
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| Ideological Answers for the Origin of Society, Government, State |
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| God, Individuals sit down and write a social contract, Evolution from family to clan to tribe to nation |
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| Rational choice or coercive power. |
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| When do you get to disobey? |
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| Declaration's Justification for Revolution |
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| Natural Rights are not respected |
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| Japanese Justification for Revolution |
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| Aware that I am a member of the group, Identify with the group, Geographical identification of group with place, Patriotism, Demands to enhance group over foreign group |
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| Love of group powerful enough to kill a foreigner |
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18th century von Herder
19th century von Bismarck
20th century Hitler |
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| A group of people who share one of the following characteristics is a nation and is entitled to its own state. |
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| Language, Race, Religion, Ideology, History, Culture, Behavior |
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| Characteristics of nationalism shared by Americans |
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| Language, History, and mostly Ideology |
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| Group Inclusiveness or Exclusiveness |
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| Race within Language within Culture within a National Group |
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| Necessary Characteristics of a State |
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| Sovereignty, Piece of dirt, Defense, Economy, Currency, A government that at least one other state recognizes |
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| Legal right to kill you and legal right of entry and exit to another state |
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| Method of suspending legal right of entry and exit to another state |
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| Cannot maintain low order |
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| Buffers keeping state from oppressing individuals |
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| Labor Unions, Political Organization, Religious Organization, Professional Associations, Hobby Groups |
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| Economic Interdependence, Micro-nationalism |
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| Globalization, Two Scorpions in a Bottle |
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| Euro identity, a league of sovereign states, world culture, international law |
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| Classical, English, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century |
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| Thomas Hobbes and John Locke |
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| John Stuart Mill and Abraham Lincoln |
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| Government of the people, by the people, for the people |
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| Liberalism T/F: Highest good of society is for overall society to develop itself to its fullest capacity |
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| F: Highest good of society is for each individual to develop themselves to their highest capacity |
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| Liberalism T/F: Each individual is responsible for their own actions |
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| Liberalism T/F: Democracy is best form of government |
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| Liberalism T/F: Intellectual confinement |
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| Liberalism T/F: Government should be maximal |
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| F: Government should be minimal |
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| Liberalism T/F: Capitalism is the best economic system |
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| Liberalism T/F: Power is good |
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| Liberalism T/F: Favor change |
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| Liberalism T/F: Human reason good |
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| Liberalism T/F: Pessimistic about human nature |
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| F: Optimistic about human nature |
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| Liberalism T/F: Obsessed with your natural rights |
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| Elements of Free Market Capitalism |
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Private ownership of property, No legal limit on accumulation of property, Buy and sell anything, Most important: profit, Profit measures efficiency |
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| Conservatism T/F: There is no God |
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| F: God(s) has/have a plan and we should obey it |
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| Conservatism T/F: Society consists of the past, the present, and the future |
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| Conservatism T/F: Happiness is achieved for a human in group membership |
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| Conservatism T/F: Diversity is good |
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| F: Evil of diversity - we need to maintain order of shared values |
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| Conservatism T/F: Every man for himself |
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| F: We as members of the group have a community of mutual responsibilities |
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| Conservatism T/F: There is a natural aristocracy which ought to be obeyed |
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| Conservatism T/F: Power is bad |
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| F: Power is good so I can suppress the heretics, dissenters, traitors |
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| Conservatism T/F: Society should be stable and predictable. Everyone stay in their place |
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| Conservatism T/F: Change is bad |
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| Conservatism T/F: Tradition is scary |
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| F: Tradition is good, reason and science are scary |
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| Conservatism T/F: Anti-egalitarian - inequality is good |
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| Elitism, Pluralism, Neo-Corporatism, Participatory |
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| Choose aristocratic families to rule |
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| Groups struggle, survival of the fittest, weak go to wall |
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| Every group is represented in the legislature used today |
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| Rousseau's Theory of Representation |
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| 1 Representative to 100 People |
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| Edmond Burke's Theory of Representation |
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| Legislator is stuck between superior intelligence and common opinion. |
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| Destroys the divine right of kings |
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| Punishing the Rich, Powerful, and Famous |
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| House of Representatives length of term |
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| US Senator length of term |
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| Federal Government term limit |
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| President term limit amendment |
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| 2 + a max of 2 if you came in by way of VP |
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| John Locke overthrowing government without elections |
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| John Locke overthrowing government with elections |
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| US House of Representatives political majority |
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| US Senate Filibuster political majority |
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| US Senate Treaty political majority |
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| US Constitutional Amendment political majority |
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| There are three or more candidates in an election and no one receives 50%. |
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| We have a runoff of the top two. |
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| Political, Opportunity, Economic, Social |
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| Easiest type of equality to acquire |
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| 19th Century Liberalism (Republican): Do we have equality of opportunity? |
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| Yes we have it already. The lazy scumbag didn't pay the $75 so his house should burn down. |
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| Socialist (Democrat): Do we have equality of opportunity? |
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| No the government must subsidize. |
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| Are we in a state of nature? |
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| We individuals have ___ of our natural rights. |
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| We agree to a division of labor and society in order to acquire property. |
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| I give some of my natural rights to the government. I retain the remainder of natural rights. |
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| I retain the remainder of natural rights. |
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| How do you go from monarchy to democracy? |
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| Amnesty, Affirmation, Funding |
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| Autonomy in a State of Nature |
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| Representation and Local Laws |
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| Autonomy in Democratic Socialism |
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| Military, Foreign Policy, Economy, Currency |
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| Democratic Socialism T/F: You are indifferent to underrepresentation. |
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| F: You feel guilty when you see the poor underrepresented. |
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| Democratic Socialism T/F: You want to redistribute the wealth from the rich to the poor. There is safety for the middle class. |
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| Democratic Socialism T/F: You are going to use taxes through elections. |
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Democratic Socialism T/F: You support capitalism.
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| F: You criticize capitalism. |
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Democratic Socialism T/F: The poor lack access to public property.
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| F: The poor have access to public property. |
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Democratic Socialism T/F: Limit accumulation of property by means of continuous taxation of property, inheritance, income, and sales.
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Democratic Socialism T/F: No Government Regulation of the Economy
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| F: Government Regulation of the Economy |
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Democratic Socialism T/F: Assistance Programs
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Democratic Socialism T/F: Criticized due to welfare and bureaucracy
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Democratic Socialism T/F: Ordinary people do not have access to an ombudsman who can navigate bureaucracy to help you obtain your government benefit.
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| F: Ordinary people have access to an ombudsman who can navigate bureaucracy to help you obtain your government benefit. |
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| Bleeding Hearts, Total Redistribution, Immediate Action, Violence |
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| Problem of Capitalist Labor |
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| Labor alienated from their laborer |
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| Surplus Labor, No Motivation for Increased Pay, Economic Crises |
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| Determines intellectual superstructure |
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| Class Struggle from Wealth to Poverty |
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| Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, Lumpen-Proletariat |
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| Own the means of production |
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| Invents the totalitarian political party in 1905 after failed spontaneous revolution |
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| Guerrilla warfare, Peasants as moving force in communism |
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| Will full communist benefits ever occur? |
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| Distribution of the wealth according to need, elitism, the state is supposed to wither away |
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| Voluntary Cooperation, Functional Relationships, Temporary, Social Structure Always Small |
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| Social Structure Always Small |
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| No state, commune, cooperative |
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| Runaway from state to a commune, Most communes are economic failures, The state comes and tells you to change your values. |
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| Economically Successful Communes |
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| The state comes and tells you to change your values |
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| The state causes a schism |
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| Need a bomb, Make it yourself or receive it as a gift, Detonate the bomb, Bomb again if you survive uncaptured |
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| You die, You survive, You are captured by the state |
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| You are captured by the first-world state |
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| You are captured by the other-world state |
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| Destroyed, revolutionaries get power |
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| Protection against force and theft |
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Fascism T/F: Social Darwinism
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Fascism T/F: State > sum of its individuals
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Fascism T/F: The state is just a concept
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| F: The state is a living organic being |
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Fascism T/F: The leader is average.
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| F: The leader is charismatic, different and better than you. Because of this, the leader preforms miracles and knows the general will. |
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Fascism T/F: The myth of superiority
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Fascism T/F: Pro-communist
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| The rich can keep all their property which is now at the service of the state. |
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| Quran, Frequent Prayers, Jihad |
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| Struggle, Proselytize, Holy War |
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| Shiites, Sunni, Wahhabis, Sufis |
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| Shiites: After founder is gone, who speaks for founder? |
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| Lineal descendant of Mohammed |
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| Sunni: After founder is gone, who speaks for founder? |
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| Majority of most Islamic states |
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| Question that divides Islam |
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| After founder is gone, who speaks for founder? |
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