Politics
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Politics might best be defined by the functions it serves. Politics is the dominant ideology and methodology used by the state to preserve and maintain its social order as a whole. Political ideology enables the state to manage conflict as much as it allows the state to strive toward all that is possible in light of its resources and potential. The modern state is designed to enforce norms, arbitrate conflict, plan and protect, and regulate relations with other societies. Central to these functions being successful is some kind of political ideology and authority that is chosen as the best by state leaders to preserve the social order. We will look at different views of politics (i.e., the state ideology) as viewed or promoted by men such as Karl Marx, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Niccolo Machiavelli, Plato and John Locke in order to attempt an answer to the question of whether or not politics is more “Conflict Management” or “The Art of the Possible?” Thomas Hobbes felt government and politics were imposed on society through a mutual social contract with those governed, those who by entering such a contract surrender much of their natural freedom and liberty in order for some authority to prevent chaos and maintain law and order. Karl Marx and Jean Jaques Rousseau argued that the state and politics were in business to manage conflict. Rousseau’s arguments proposed the theory that mankind is born free but he is a captive
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ve inspiration to the French Revolution. In Locke’s views can be found modern democracy in the U.S., a form of government and politics that views the ultimate political authority as the people who are governed, “Man being born, hath by nature a power not only to preserve his property—that is, his life, liberty, and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men, but to judge of and punish the breaches of that law in others, as he is persuaded the offense deserves, even with death itself” (Locke 3). Of course, for Locke, this power extended itself to those who governed. The people have the right to participate in the decision-making of politics and to elect or dismiss their leaders. Of course, it is a representative democracy that exists in the U.S., since the people elect representatives who make political decisions allegedly in the interests of those who have elected them. Nonetheless, this form of politics allows for more development of the art of the possible than does a totalitarian one like Hitler’s Nazism, Mussolini’s fascism, or Stalin’s communism which were direct efforts by state authorities to protect self-interests over the interests of the majority cloaked in good-of-the-people rhetoric.
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