What is ideology?

Ideology is the way how we look at things. It is a vision developed on the basis of ones belief and
experience.
Political controversies result in competing and conflicting ideologies- German Nazism, Soviet
communism, and Indias democratic socialism.
During Second World War, ideology was used to mean what both what one beliefs and how one
come to hold such belief.
A French sociologist August Compte has used first the word ideology. Who says ideology is a
system of ideas.
A more sophisticated approach to ideology is: it is a body of doctrines, beliefs and symbols.

A definite and positive term implies that an ideology is a concise set of political, social and economic
belief. Each ideology has a firm institutional or organization base.
William Ebestein classifies in his famous book todays isms ideologies into four major groups:
1. Capitalism: as an economic and this competes with democracy also its political counterpart .
2. Socialism: portrayed along a broad spectrum extending from its moderate variants and
extremist patterns.
3. Communism: distionguised sharply between national patterns and the more familiar
international forms. (remaining part).
4. Fascism

Communism:
Thought communism has its roots in Karl Marx theory, Lenin has given practical form to it.
At first, the communism was a forceful political system in Russia. Then it spread to
neighboring countries including china.
The growth of Communism took such an all pervading form in china that, now china is
known as one of the most powerful countries of the communist block. China is a supporter
of the basic ideals of karl marx.
Today Communism has become a political system. Its purpose is to effect socio-political and
economic reforms.
Communism believes in religion and principles of morality through materialistic and
scientific advancements.
It gives more importance to reality than the mind and soul. It thinks that man is capable of
any change in the external; world.
It considers class struggle as important event. History is only a story of struggle between
exploiters and exploited.
Communism looks forward that exploitation disappears and classless society will be
established. Masses shall be given their fundamental rights.
Communism attaches greater importance to organization. Accordingly, all instructions,
associations and committees work under the outlines determined by communism.
Under Communism the term freedom is used in a special sense. Here, the purpose of
freedom is to serve the group of which the individual is a member. Thus, the benefit
occurred in favour off the group is , infact , the benefit for the individual.