Enrollment for XKI Politics

[MinnaCaroline]

Post here to sign up for XKI Politics taught by Professor Sinn Féin's Ireland.

[Assassins and Bandits]

Here!

[Chelodia]

Here!

[Mutanatia]

A human walks in, named Joshua. "Here!" He says, rather enthusiastically.

[newislandia]

What aspects of politics will you be teaching.

[MinnaCaroline]

I am sorry to announce that 55 Nations is not going to be able to teach this course. The Dean is currently looking for a new professor who can run this classroom. My apologies and I will keep you updated.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

I am able to teach politics, but is this 10KI/NS politics or real life? RL might be more exciting, but it'll be a longer course.

[MinnaCaroline]

It's up to you really. If you want to teach RL then that's fine too. I'd love it if you wanted to take on 2 classes.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

I'll teach RL and NS politics then. In the few places where they cross over we can have comparisons etc.

Ok. That's cool. We'll start off with some domestic stuff (from a UK pov) and then make it more applicable in terms of international politics, and we'll throw in some Machiavelli, Hobbes, etc. along the way to make it more universal too.

Ok. I'll get to lesson plans soon.
Sinn.

[MinnaCaroline]

Perfect! Thank you so much! I've updated the first post to reflect Professor Sinn Féin's Ireland.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

Hey, I'm a magpie, i'd love to have a couple of honourary Doctorates under my belt.... and these guys get a fair education too...

We'll start off with VOTING SYSTEMS!! ;D hahaha

[San Juan Capital]

Oh, Sinn, I could help you with Politics, it's my Major, and I can give you the specifics on Latin American, Spanish, and USA politics. And I'm also in the International Organisations Class, so any UN thing you may need... here I am...

Oh, yeah, I'm interested in being taught, Sinn...

Voting Systems? Shan't we begin with... "At the beginning, there was the Tribe Leader. And he was good..."

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

lol. I'm happy to co-teach. Sounds like you know what you're talking about too.

I think we'll split it up into the following: Current political mechanisms and institutions, modern political issues, recent historical context, political theory/philosophy.

[newislandia]

sjcapital said:

Oh, Sinn, I could help you with Politics, it's my Major, and I can give you the specifics on Latin American, Spanish, and USA politics. And I'm also in the International Organisations Class, so any UN thing you may need... here I am...

Oh, yeah, I'm interested in being taught, Sinn...

Voting Systems? Shan't we begin with... "At the beginning, there was the Tribe Leader. And he was good..."

That explains alot PRE. Emperor. ;D ;D Or future leader of PR. You never know.

[San Juan Capital]

Sounds nice... though, we'll need to coordinate all the stuff in the class... maybe PM? I could also give UK Politics, but I figure you live rather closer to Britain, and are probably more exposed to it...

I'll have to prepare myself indeed, but it's gonna be fun!

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

We'll PM each other. Makes more sense.

[Nostri]

Present.

[Italia Romanae]

Here.

I actually sat around for a few minutes trying to find something that rhymed with here and made sense. Needless to say I drew a huge blank.

[San Juan Capital]

It's ok. Feel welcomed.

[Gluuland]

I'd like to enroll. :-D
Lemme knwo when classes start!

[San Juan Capital]

Ok, no problem. Lemme reorganise things here and see how to play with my other classes...

[55 Nations]

Hello! I am the assistant to Professor San Juan Capital, and I will be his aid this semester. I will help All I can, to make sure, are these the following students signed up?

Students:
Assassins and Bandits
Chelodia
Mutanatia
Nostri
Italia Romanae
Gluuland
The Masked Protector

If you would like to take this class, and your name isn't up there, please post! Thanks

[Makecup]

Sure, sign me up

[55 Nations]

Hello! I am the assistant to Professor San Juan Capital, and I will be his aid this semester. I will help All I can, to make sure, are these the following students signed up?

Students:
Assassins and Bandits
Chelodia
Mutanatia
Nostri
Italia Romanae
Gluuland
The Masked Protector
Govindia

Firstly I would like to thank all members joining this class! And I hope you will all be tought well! What will be the first lessons San Juan?

[San Juan Capital]

Uhm... tomorrow we shall begin with a little Introduction of Politics

[Govindia (Denivogar)]

Can I still sign up?

[San Juan Capital]

yes, you may Govindia

Hello, I’m the co-professor of the Politics class. The other co-professor is 55 Nations.
To start, I shall begin with an introduction of what is politics :
According to Wikipedia, Politics can be viewed as it follows:

In the broad sense of the word politics regards power relationships, while in the narrow sense of the word it means electoral politics and the processes by which groups of people make decisions.

Therefore, Politics is in a broad sense the power relationships in a group of people, 2 or more. That is, in any human relation of 2 or more politics exist: corporations, schools, religious institutions, family, friends, et cetera.
In a more narrow sense, it is related then to government’s behaviour and organisations. It consists of the regulation of the political units (the before said units), and the methods that are used to formulate and implement policy on those units through authority via the acquisition and application of power.
In the following weeks and months, we will study the power relations, specifically the government behavioural patterns and their changes through the ages, and so, the way they have been seen.
As an optative homework, browse and study the definitions of the words given here:
1. Government
2. Power
3. Authority
4. Legitimacy
5. Sovereignty
Also, search and study the definitions of the words:
1. Despotism
2. Republic
3. (Electoral) Democracy
4. Monarchy
5. Anarchism
6. Dictatorship

In the following classes, we shall subdivide these government methods.

Welcome.!

[San Juan Capital]

Today I will give the definition of two major terms and/or perspectives of politics throughout the world: Left-Right politics and Authoritative-Libertarian politics. (part 1)

Originally, Left-Right was identified in the time of the French Revolution, according to where the ones opposed and in favour of the status quo, that is, the French monarchy, sat at the National Assembly. The ones in favour sat at the right, the opposed to the left. The terms have changed through time and region, but they share certain points still:

Left is normally seen as more open to change, whilst Right is opposed to it. Also, Left identifies itself with the masses, whilst Right tends to identify itself with the more-property-having classes. Again, these are no absolute terms.

For examples of Left-Right differences:

On Economy:

Left: Economic Interventionism
Right: Laissez-Faire (or let it carry itself out... 'free market')

On Government (policies):

Left: Big Government (agencies and many companies are public, for instance, Water, Electricity...)
Right: 'Small' Government (privatisation, although counterexamples do exist)

On Government (religion):

Left: Secularism
Right: Religion more related to government

[San Juan Capital]

(part 2)
Authoritative-Libertarian Politics refer to the amount of Freedom/Liberty that people have in relation to the government. It has been defined that authoritarian systems are those who subjugate the will of the individual to the wills, conformities, desires or goals of the collective. Meanwhile, the libertarian systems holds civil liberties and individualism as important.

To the extremes of these two views stand the next:

More liberal than the libertarians are the anarchists, who call for the total destruction of the state, or its almost total destruction.

More authoritarian systems/ideas are totalitarians who support state control over every single aspect of society.

As an exercise, classify the 6 government definitions you had researched as Libertarian, Authoritarian; Right, Left.

[Govindia (Denivogar)]

1. Despotism - Authoritarian, Right
2. Republic - Authoritarian, Left
3. (Electoral) Democracy - Libertarian, Right
4. Monarchy - Authoritarian, Right
5. Anarchism - Libertarian, Left
6. Dictatorship - Authoritarian


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