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Political ideologies
- FascismThe word fascism originates from the Italian term fascio, meaning bundle of sticks. This concept traces back to ancient Rome where a fasces was a bundle of…
- NationalismIn 1793, the revolutionary government of France declared a mass conscription known as the levée en masse. This decree called upon all French citizens to…
- AnarchismThe word anarchism emerged from the Ancient Greek term anarkhia, meaning without a ruler. It combines the prefix an- for without and arkhos for leader or…
- IslamismThe word Islamism first appeared in English as Islamismus in 1696 and later as Islamism in 1712. By the turn of the twentieth century, the shorter Arabic…
- RepublicanismIn the 6th century BCE, Lucius Junius Brutus and Collatinus expelled the kings from Rome to establish a system they called res publica.
- Social democracyIn 1869, the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany became the first social democratic party established in Europe.
- WhiggismThe word Whiggism emerged in the 1680s as a label for a political faction born from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Lord Shaftesbury formalized these ideas…
- LGBTQ movementsIn 1749, Thomas Cannon published a work titled Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd. This text stands as one of the earliest known…
- Anarcho-primitivismJean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the Discourse on Inequality during the Enlightenment era. He blamed agriculture and cooperation for creating social inequality.
- CommunismThe word communism derives from the French term communiste, which combines the Latin root communis meaning common with the suffix -isme indicating a state or…