Class Notes 4 You

Intro: Social movements involve collective struggle aimed at bringing social transformation questioning prevailing order , power relations, struggle for justice etc. Developed countries- Old left- against exploitative nature of capitalism, inequalities(monochromatic) These were working class movements in the developed world. In the developing world these were peasant movements against feudalism, anti colonialism movements. New left- started in 1960s . Herbert Marcuse is known as father of new left . Based on the ideas of Young Marx, hence the aim of these movements is “human emancipation.” Unlike the old social movements that talked of basic necessities of life, the new social movements focus on the “quality of life.” These movements exhibit plural ideas and values and hence difficult to compartmentalise as socialist, capitalist,right or left. Post materialist movements and focus more on developmental issues like sustainable development, disarmament, LGBT, social media movements like m...

Political parties are the essential components of representative democracy .They are the umbilical cord that links citizens to their govts. The study of political parties has been promoted as a result of behavioural movement in poli science and led to development of statistiology Pol parties are powerhouses- Max Weber Do the work on the interest aggregation- Almond and Powell Laski- democracy is unthinkable w/o pol parties. Zoya Hassan and Y Yadav- pol parties have done historic function of bringing social and economic transformation Theories and models of political parties- Lenin’s contribution Gave theory of Communist party in his pamphlet- what is to be done Called communist party as vanguard of revolution communist parties operate through secret cells , pyramidal structure, democratic centralism i.e. policies decided at base and communicated to top leadership) Leaders convert this demand into the workable programme of action. What is the program is decided, it has to be impleme...