Ideological perspectives on Canada / M. Patricia Marchak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchak, M. Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology.

Canada--Social conditions--1945-.

Canada.

Canada--Economic conditions--1945-.

Canada--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marchak argues that liberalism and socialism have many commonalities, such as the goals of equality and freedom for citizens. Corporatism, however, is opposed to equality and promotes an authoritarian hierarchy, resembling the older conservative ideology. To support her argument, Marchak provides a general overview of the study of ideologies, analyzes liberalism and socialism in the context of Canada, and uses Marxist theory to explain past and present class structure and the emergence of a corporatist social structure. A valuable contribution to the debate about the society we live in, Ideological Perspectives on Canada attempts to look at ideologies from an objective standpoint, while admitting that analysts can never fully remove themselves from the web of their own society, which in the Canadian case is steeped in liberalism, socialism, and corporatism.

Contents:

Ideology and social organization

Individualism and equality

Free enterprise in (relatively moral) nation states

Classes in industrial society

The old Left

The new Left

Ideology and social change

List of tables

List of figures.

Notes:

Originally published: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-139) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-83484-7

0-7735-9091-9

OCLC:

818727348