Every Political Ideology Explained in 8 Minutes | The Paint Explainer | History Teacher Reacts

This video went viral when it was released. The Paint Explainer briefly goes over every political ideology. Mr. Terry talks about the history of the ideologies

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[MrTerry]

How much have the definitions of these ideologies changed over time?

[joecrazy]

If only Wendigoon's video on explaining ideologies by using the political compass wasn't 2 hours long. Would have been great to see Terry check that out.

[ThePaintExplainer]

Loved this reaction!
I agree with the statement that these ideologies were oversimplified; it's because the goal was to "educate" people (mainly teenagers who are just getting into politics) and spark their curiosity to go further with research on their own, while being as unbiased as possible.
I've explained the classical definitions of each ideology; the actual application of them in modern times is a whole other topic.
Much love ❤

[cervanntes]

I was absolutely taught In elementary school that the Soviets picked your jobs for you, so no, it isn’t just you. When I asked my wife (who grew up in the USSR prior to its collapse) about it she looked at me like I was crazy. There’s *some * truth to that, but there’s a lot more to it. All able bodied people of working age were expected to work. Once things started to settle down after the initial chaos, people generally could choose their own trade but if you didn’t or couldn’t find a job on your own, one would be found for you. Especially in the early days, independent movement to new regions wasn’t an option for most citizens, so if no jobs were available locally in the trade you wanted, you were out of luck and either had to find something else quick or you were assigned whatever was available and most needed. Forced labor was also a big thing in the prison system, but that’s an entirely different thing. Similarly, during wartime people could sometimes expect to be assigned jobs as needed to support the war effort.

[blackXhawksXkickXbut]

One thing I'd like to add is that it is possible to believe multiple ideologies at the same time. Some of these are not mutually exclusive

[josephcarter]

I’m surprised he mentioned imperialism but not isolationism since those two are basically polar opposites with isolationism for the most part believing that nothing that happens outside of the area that is being governed matters. A big historical instance of isolationism was William Churchill talking about the iron curtain and either not knowing or caring what happened on the other side.

[scottevil]

For Syndicalism I would advise you look into the Spanish Revolution from 1936, especially the "Summer of Anarchy" around Barcelona. A person of interest in that regard is Buenaventura Durruti. I must also slightly correct the video, since syndicalism could be considered a mix between anarchism and socialism (especially the councel system idea for direct democracy) but since they historicly often clashed with the totalitarian soviet style socialists (they were among the white army that fought against the Bolschewiki in the Soviet Union) they are till this day closer to anarchists.

[GuitarOwnsDrums]

Cool to be early to this! My background is in PoliSci, though I was just a student of it. Syndicalism is an off-shoot of anarchism. The anarchists of Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War were syndicalists and organised their radical labour unions into the CNT-FAI. It was an incredibly large organisation, with over a million members at its peak. It ultimately got destroyed for several reasons I won't try to unpack. Fun fact, Noam Chomsky has long identified as an anarcho-syndicalist.

[Cassandra]

As far as these sorts of videos go this is definitely one of the better ones.

[cyfrostan]

While capitalism IS an economic system, in the context of politics it can be viewed as an opposite of socialism (advocating for the strengthening of private proterty rights, limiting govt interventions in markets, etc).

It tends to be viewed as apolitical because it's the current status quo in most current societies, while ideologies that oppose it seem inherently more political, because they propose more major policy changes to the status quo.

[Orthane]

Syndicalism was a thing that really took off in the USA for a while there, predominately for Mine workers.

[melkor]

As someone studying political science and history as well as being a history nerd I can tell you there actually has been a syndicalism uprising one time in history. It still exists but is a very small ideology but if you ever heard of the French commune with made an uprising in 1871 that uprising consisted of many leftists ideologies one big one was however syndicalism.

[NoGoodHandlesLeft]

Political scientist here: 'conservatism' is a very vague term which encompasses a lot of contradictory beliefs to the point of being meaningless when it comes to ideology. For instance, a lot of modern conservatism was originally liberalism. In the English context toryism is *the* conservative ideology (and if you have no idea what toryism is you may be getting an inkling of how common it actually is even if many English conservatives tend to call themselves tories outside the US). Re: Success of monarchies - I'd suggest checking out the two videos in CGP Grey's 'Rules for Rulers' series. It notes that hereditary succession tends to keep showing up where you don't expect it to (such as republics) because hereditary succession is pretty good at securing your power, not only after you're gone but more importantly while you are still alive. Your supporters want security (and a cut of the pie) and they realize a mad scramble for power after a ruler's death has the potential to be bad for them. Better to have a Plan B (the heir) so that doesn't happen. Not having an heir means the supporters have to start planning for the future and often this cuts a ruler's reign short since a new ruler today is the same thing as a new ruler down the line. Both the ruler and their supporters don't trust each other but they recognize both have a shared interest in not upsetting the system in place. Such balancing between the interests of a ruler and the interests of supporters has historically been hard to maintain in a republic.

[DonMo]

Communitarism strikes me as like a question of East Asian success. Neither Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore or the Chninese Malay had very many elections change leadership over them, but they are all remarkably successful. So apparently the frequency of leadership exchanges was not the problem.

[paulpeterson]

Most Americans STILL think that socialism means you get assigned a job... and an apartment...and a common toothbrush that you have to share with 17 other people, etc.

[mikitz]

When it comes to (anarcho-)syndicalism, the bloody peasant without enough mud explained it pretty well in Holy Grail.

[edmundrandall]

Syndicalism is the western (mostly French) version of Communism, in which it's the workers and laborers who are in charge; as opposed to Leninism in which it's the peasants and farmers. After the formation of the USSR and the Red Scare, most syndicalist movements in France, Britain, Germany, and Italy were either stamped out or just suppressed. But it's way closer to Marxism basically

[orangeanarchy]

"anarchist states" is an oxymoron. many anarchist experiments were either not given the time to actually play out (best example is Makhnovschina), or were still beholden to state interests and therefore still maintained some hierarchy (most notably CNT-FAI in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War)

[tomhalla]

Fascism in the original Italian sense was syndicalism and corporatism. A Fasces was supposed to be a workers committee, with much the same definition as a Soviet. In practice, it was top down authoritarianism.

[prcrstnaor]

I think Separatism is less connected to the "sovereign citizen" concept (which seems more of an extreme form of Libertarianism), and more connected to the desire for independence from a pre-existing state. Think Revolution-era American Colonies, Yugoslavia breakup, South Sudan, kurds in the middle east, sikhs in India, etc.