The New Authoritarians

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The New Authoritarians

• Mr. Greens Comparative Government

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Earth
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Human Nature

• Plato (428-348 BCE)
• Human Nature
• The Ring of Gyges
• Personality Types
• Those ruled by emotion
• Those ruled by action
• Those ruled by reason
• The Philosopher King The Specialized Ruler
• Captain of the Boat

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Human Nature

• St. Augustine (354-430)
• Fallen Man
• Original Sin
• Sinful Nature
• Salvation
• Catholicism Obedience to God Through the
  Hierarchical Church?
• Calvinism Grace?
• The Christian Philosopher King

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Human Nature

• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
• Human Nature
• Mechanical Beings
• Seeks to Satisfy Desire
• If Possible, Will Use Others To Fulfill Desires
• State of Nature
• State of War of All Against All
• Solution Sovereign Power
• End Violence

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Human Nature

• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
• Human Nature
• Id, Ego, Superego
• Powerful Id Seeks Sexual Fulfillment and Violence
• Function of Civilization
• Control the Id
• The Milgram Experiments (1963)

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Class

• Karl Marx (1818-1883)
• Labor Theory of Value
• Works Create Value
• Owners End Up With Value
• Exploitation
• Evil of Private Property
• Class Struggle
• Class
• The Capitalist Era
• Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat
• The Coming Class Revolution

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Capitalist Class Structure
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Class

• Karl Marx (cont.)
• The Dialectic of History
• Slave Economy to Feudal Economy
• Feudal Economy to Capitalist Economy
• Capitalism to Socialism
• The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• The State Will Wither Away
• Classless Society (Communism)

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Class

• V.I. Lenin (1870-1924)
• Failure of the Marxist Revolution
• Capitalist Imperialism
• False Consciousness
• The Vanguard of the People
• Small Independent Cells
• Undermine the Capitalist State
• The End Justifies the Means
• Party Dictatorship
• Power of the State Necessary For Raising Class
  Consciousness
• Control of Family, Religion, Work, Community,
  Military, Society

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Nation

• Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)
• Nationalism
• The Nation Is Each Citizens Primary Loyalty
• Over and Above Community, Society, Family, and
  Religion
• A Peoples Existence Requires the Nation
• Militarism
• The State is Created By Military Power
• Greatest Nations Have the Strongest Militaries
  Whose Power Grows From Superior Cultures

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Nation

• Adolph Hitler (cont)
• Racism
• Great t Nations are the Creation of Homogeneous
  Populations of Great Races
• Weak Nations
• Originate From Inferior or Impure (Mongrel) Races
• Jews, Slavs, Gypsies
• Tolerate Weak Individuals
• The Mentally and Physically Impaired
• Homosexuals
• Great Nations are Create Great Cultures
• Grow naturally from races with natural good
  health, and aggressive, intelligent, courageous
  traits

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Nation

• Adolph Hitler (cont)
• Threats to the National Potential
• Bolshevism (Communism)
• Emphasis on Equality Undermines Loyalty to the
  Nation
• Capitalism
• Emphasis on Individual Choice Undermines Loyalty
  to the Nation
• Democracy
• Emphasis on Individual Choice Undermines Loyalty
  to the Nation
• Emphasis on Mass Participation Undermines the
  Ascension of Great Leaders

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Nation

• Adolph Hitler (cont)
• Requirements For A Great Nation
• Great Leaders With Absolute Power
• State Control of Alternative Sources of Loyalty
• Family, Religion, Work, Community, Military,
  Society
• Lebensraum (Breathing Space)

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Religion

• Osama Bin Laden (1957-____)
• Religious Nationalism
• The True Religion Is Each Citizens Primary
  Loyalty
• Over and Above Community, Society, Family, and
  Nation
• A Peoples Existence Requires the Religion
• Terrorism
• To Fight Threats To True Religion
• The End Justifies the Means
• To Establish Theocracy
• Government Subordinate to Religious Law
• Control of Family, Work, Community, Military,
  Society

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Religion

• Osama Bin Laden (1957-____)
• Threats to Religion
• Secular States
• Capitalism
• Secular Culture
• Democracy

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