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Understanding Notes #2 Liberalism

For the next few lectures we will be discussing the industrialized democracies of the West. In this category will be those states which have had functioning democracies for at least 40 years, and also posses highly developed capitalist economies. This category will include almost all of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Oz, New Zealand, etc. Deal with Japan in a later context.

The term democracy in itself is somewhat problematic. Virtually all states claim to be democratic -DDR, DPRK, etc. This term has taken on heavy symbolic value and is often used to describe us, while other terms are used to denote them. There has been a difference of opinion as to what determines democracy - in the west we view it as the ability to exercise determinant influence on the direction of government policy; however, Marxism would contend that this is only an illusion. Our elections are presented as being facades that serve to dupe the people into......

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