Modern political ideologies

Modern political ideologies, like those that existed before, ensure order in society, support its integrity. And this despite the fact that in the society there are many groups often with absolutely opposite opinions. That is, the political ideologies of our time are such statements about facts and values that are relevant to a certain group, individual or party and express their goals. They serve as a framework, on which the functions and structure of power in a concrete society are based. All the main political ideologies of our time, regardless of their essence, are inseparable from the problems of authority. Each of them recognizes its model of society and applies its means and methods for its implementation in practice.

Modern political ideologies simultaneously perform two seemingly opposite roles. On the one hand, they unite the members of a particular party (the integrative function), and on the other hand, separate it from the others (the demarcation function).

The tendentious nature of political ideologies, as a rule, is pronounced. This is due to their desire to attract the most support. Ideologies give a political connotation to relations between people, groups, parties, institutions . They explain, accept or reject certain realities of social life in a specific historical period. These are common features characteristic of any given time.

Modern political ideologies, however, differ from the former by the absence of an invisible axis that divided the world into two poles. This happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The concept of "the West" has lost its old meaning. Japan began to be attributed to Asian countries. Now it can, together with other states belonging to the Asia-Pacific region, build relations with other regions without looking back on political and ideological considerations.

And at the same time it is time that M. Weber warned: the era of loss of illusions, a time of disappointment and uncertainty. Both the religious teachings of the past, and the various ideas and utopias that existed in the 20th century, ceased to play the role of those ideals that all mobilized. It happened either because of bankruptcy, or else they just exhausted themselves. In our time, most utopias (communist, radical, socialist) are debunked. And this is a fact. As a consequence, people lost confidence in both revolutionaries and reformers. No one is scared or inspired by the great prohibitions, refusals and programs. And they do not act because of complete human indifference to them.

Modern political ideologies are characterized by one important development trend: they actively lend each other positions, while making their synthesis.

There is another trend. This is an evolution into an independent ideology of nationalism. He attracts people by skillfully transforming ordinary, even banal, actions into a source of pride for the whole people, points to the elements of self-expression present in them and the desire for freedom. A person convinced of this, begins to feel his own involvement in the community, responsibility, finds meaning in life. This reduces his feelings of alienation and loneliness.

After all, strangely enough, but in a society in which cosmopolitanization reigns, modernization, loss of roots and depersonalization, the need to give meaning to one's life not only does not decrease, but, on the contrary, only increases. And the more vague are such natural associations as family, clan, ethnos, nation, community, the more people become striving to join artificial societies: sects, parties, etc.