Reflections on Political Ideologies: A Reader and A Workbook

Unit 1 Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal 
Key Terms and Reading Questions 
Reader 1 : Declaration of Independence 
Reflection Exercise: How Do YOU View Natural Rights? 

Unit 2 Proto-Liberalism and Liberalism 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Hobbes 
Reader 2: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 
Reflection Exercise: View from a State of Zombies! 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—JS Mill  
Reader 3: Chapter 1: Introductory 
Chapter 2: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 
Reflection Exercise: Who Is Shunned Now? 

Unit 3 Conservatism 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Burke 
Reader 4 : Edmund Burke, “The Nature of Society” 
Reflection Exercise: Views from Your Past 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Kristol 
Reader 5 : Irving Kristol, “The Neoconservative Persuasion” 
Reflection Exercise: New NeoCon or Not? 

Unit 4 Socialism and Marx 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Marx 
Reader 6 : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Introduction and Section I. “Bourgeois and Proletarians” within “The Communist Manifesto” 
Reflection Exercise: An Owner’s Perspective

Unit 5 Liberalism Divided 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Berlin  
Reader 7: Isaiah Berlin, “Two Conceptions of Liberty” 
Reflection Exercise: Free to/Free from 

Unit 6 Revisionist and Non-Marxist Socialism 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Marcuse 
Reader 8: Herbert Marcuse, “The New Forms of Control” 
Reflection Exercise: Commodified Self 

Unit 7 Fascism 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Wolin
Reader 9: Sheldon Wolin, “Myth in the Making” 
Reflection Exercise: Seeing through the Myth 

Unit 8 Liberation Ideologies
Key Terms and Reading Questions—hooks 
Reader 10: bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Reflection Exercise: A Feminist of One’s Own 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Corvino 
Reader 11: John Corvino “Why Shouldn’t Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality”  
Reflection Exercise: YOUR View of His Argument 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Alfred and Corntassel 
Reader 12: Taiaiake Alfred and Jeff Corntassel “Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism” 
Reflection Exercise: A Fourth World View 
Reading Questions—Tapahonso 
Reader 13: Luci Tapahonso, “A Birthday Poem” and “Blue Horses Rush In” 
Reflection Exercise: Indigenous Orientation 

Unit 9 Ecology as an Ideology 
Key Terms and Reading Questions—Vanderheiden 
Reader 14: Steven Vanderheiden “Climate Change and Intergenerational Responsibility” 
Reflection Exercise: Are YOU Morally Obligated?