Key terms, such as 'politics' (within the context of popular music), will at first be explained. ... However, politics in music is not exclusive to party politics, as it can also be used in the socio-political sense. ... The irony of the BNP using folk music for a racist agenda is that folk has often been used in an attempt "to reach across racial boundaries" (Roy 2010, p.x). ... Although the examples of the BNP and LMHR have been used due to their lack of ambiguity in their political messages, Shuker argues that all music is political as "every aspect of the product...

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I was actually surprised with his depth of knowledge of politics; it was just not confined to Western Europe but also beyond the usual boundaries of most sociologist thought. ... Finally in Politics as a Vocation' Weber concludes that the specific instruments of politics is power', backed up by violence, an observation which compounds any understanding of a relationship between ethics and politics. Weber further argues that regardless of the needs for politics the essential means is violence. ... Clearly Weber illustrates that violence is the primary means of politics, thus creatin...

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Nevertheless, it should not be disregarded because it has a continuing validity in the study of international politics. Marxism claims that the politics of the world exist in a global capitalist economy. ... The status quo of world politics has become so "common-sense" that an alternative is almost inconceivable. ... He claims that freedom lies in radical democracy with the expansion of moral boundaries and the loss of the ethical and moral significance of the Westphalian State. ... Marxism, as a whole, should also have a greater influence in global politics because it attempts too dig un...

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To Machiavelli this means that the prince should work within the laws, and within traditional conceptions of morality whenever possible, however to be a truly effective ruler the prince must be prepared to step outside these boundaries when necessary in both his moral life and political conduct. ... He feels that it is necessary for the prince to go beyond "properly human means" when acting in the political realm and that it is not useful for the prince to keep his word because he will have to deal with men who "are treacherous and would not keep their promises to you" and because of this...

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This document, one of the many, resulted in the writing and passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, which expanded freedom to erase the boundaries of race. ... Foner's three elements are territorial expansion, political democratization, and the spread of market relations, which were influenced and encouraged by their interpretation of the concept of freedom. ... Political democracy, according to Foner, is based on the right to vote, which symbolizes the American citizenship. He links this idea to freedom, "The vote, said one advocate of democratic reform, was the first mark of libe...

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Civilizations of the classical era experienced a proliferation of geographical and political growth due to a cultivated understanding of government and social structure. ... In contrast to Confucius and al-Farabi, Indian political advisor Kautilya adopted a more pessimistic view of human nature. ... He describes fortresses on the outside of the kingdom as well as in the center of 1410 villages, which is suggestive of anticipated attacks: "There shall be constructed in the extremities of the kingdom forts manned by boundary-guards whose duty shall be to guard the entrances into the kingdom...

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This is in stark contrast to the Platonic philosophy when man existed to serve the state, the basic idea being that ethics and politics are intertwined, its essential features overlapping. ... Combining these two concepts, the invariable conclusion is that the citizen because of his own uniqueness inevitably becomes embroiled in the internal political conflicts of the state. ... To Machiavelli, the logical creation of an ordered state is a republic characterized by political and civil liberty. ... Machiavelli thus recognizes that an ordered republic that can insure political and civil liber...

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The state is free to do everything within its territory and there is no other political entity or organ superior to the state. ... Human societies developed and formed new political communities. ... By the end of the fifteenth century there were many independent political units in Europe, but the feudal order was certainly declining. ... Moreover, the Reformation, Counter-Reformation and the following wars of religion helped to prepare the ground for a secular political system. ... The United Nations prohibited the threat or use of force by any state against the political independence or t...

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He starts by saying that political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. ... It follows that while ethics in the abstract judges the moral qualities of motives, political theory must judge the political qualities of intellect, will, and action. ... Fourthly, political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. ... Intellectually, the political realist maintains the autonomy of the political sphere, as the economist, the lawyer, the moralist maintain theirs. ... The political realist ...

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