Unjerked E43 Political Compass Part 1

What are the different political positions which exist? What does it mean to be on the left vs right? Is the traditional political compass a good way to categorize politics?

We first discuss what it means to be on the left vs right, the looseness of political beliefs, and the difference between party and ideology over time. We discuss the coalitions of ideologies in the context of parties as well. Then, we talk about the history of political ideology, and the growth of left vs right politics in the French revolution. Following this, we go over the modern definition of left vs right.

Then, we go over the consistency of people's political beliefs, and their symbolic vs operational beliefs.

Finally, we go over economic axes in politics, to include trade policy, fiscal policy, and monetary policy.

 

0:00 Intro 1:24 Political compass text

2:00 What it means to be left vs right

2:47 Economic, social, and international policy

3:56 Looseness of political beliefs (2)

4:20 Party vs ideology

5:00 coalitions within two party

6:47 History of political ideology

10:20 Left vs Right in the French Revolution

12:36 Modern definition of left vs right

14:07 consistency of political beliefs (2)

18:05 Symbolic vs operational ideology

22:00 Bundling of unrelated policy positions

23:00 Economic axis: trade policy (2) vs fiscal policy vs monetary policy

 

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