Ideology is a universal philosophy based on specific principles, which has been transformed into a political movement with the aim of seizing power and reshaping reality based on the vision of the leaders of the concerned philosophy and its early pioneers. Ideologies can generally be divided into three categories: a socio-cultural ideology, that is, a religious one; a socio-political ideology, that is, nationalism; And a socio-economic ideology, that is, Marxism and capitalism. While religion seeks to guide people, nationalism seeks to unite people around common slogans and goals, while Marxism and capitalism seek to improve the social and economic conditions of their followers.
Religious ideology confiscates most of human freedoms and rights, including social, political, and religious freedoms, some of his economic rights, and freedom of opinion, thought, and behavior, in exchange for a promise of life after life that science, human experience, or historical fact cannot prove or deny its existence. What makes this belief in promise reflect a personal point of view and conviction. Therefore, it is not permissible for a believer to impose his point of view on other people, nor to take control of the affairs of a society, because politics is the art of the possible, which makes it not adhere to certain principles or morals. Indeed, there is no morality in politics, and morality is not politics. In addition, the interests of the ideological leader usually conflict with the interest of society, because his presence at the helm of power gives him extraordinary power to suppress the general public, falsify their awareness, and achieve his goals at their expense.
The nationalist ideology was born in Spain in the late fifteenth century with the aim of liberating the country from Arabs and Jews, which made it ally with the Catholic Church, excommunicate non-Christians and burn thousands of them, and force those who could not escape from Andalusia to convert to Christianity. With the spread of national thought in Europe, it quickly turned into an ideology that established many national states that could only become independent by getting rid of the hegemony of the Church, which caused religious wars that lasted about 80 years, claiming the lives of about a fifth of the population of Western Europe, and ended in 1648 with the dismissal of Religion over the state. With the beginning of industrialization, nationalism turned into a racist colonial movement that killed millions of people, seized most of the countries of the world, exploited its resources and enslaved its people.
The capitalist ideology was born in the womb of the industrial revolution, developed through private ownership of the tools of production, and flourished under colonialism and the plundering of the wealth of the poor and weak peoples. While the capitalist regimes allow people in their countries to exercise their religious, intellectual, social, political and economic freedoms, they steal food from the children of the poor, the weak, and the general public on behalf of the rich, the powerful, and the political elites. While its media falsifies the awareness of the general public and promotes a culture of consumption; This enabled the capitalist system to confiscate people’s will and humanity. In addition, the capitalist system was one of the most important tools for plundering the wealth of poor and weak peoples, perpetuating their backwardness in scientific, technological and economic terms, and depriving them of freedom and liberation.
As for Marxist philosophy, it came as a response to the exploitative practices of capitalism, especially the exploitation of women and children by capitalists during the period of emergence and spread of factories. This made Marxism call for justice, and for the industrial workers class to seize ownership of the tools of production, but it turned, like other ideologies, into a political movement that seized power. Although she was able to provide a living for every citizen in her country, she deprived him of his religious, political and economic freedoms, which made her besiege his mind, confiscate his will, and unleash his instincts that contradict his humanity.
History indicates that ideological systems of government that were based on religion, nationalism, and Marxism succeeded in the beginning in enabling themselves to rule the countries they seized, and to achieve good achievements in most aspects of life, but they quickly turned into sterile and unjust systems of government, which made them end in failure. As for the capitalist ruling systems, they were the most successful ideological systems in terms of economic, scientific, cultural and technological aspects, but they did not get rid of the exploitative tendency, which enabled the political, economic and media elites to acquire most of the returns of the economic process, and to seize more than half of the wealth of the country they ruled. In light of the expansion of greed and the continuation of exploitation, the capitalist systems have lost people’s confidence in them, which has made them enter a stage of gradual erosion and collapse.
But history also indicates that ideological systems of government do not die easily, and do not disappear except after a conflict that may cause bloody wars, and that periods of deterioration and decline witness the occurrence of cultural and sometimes religious regression as well. But every apostasy, regardless of its nature and motives, is an attempt to go back and turn the hands of time back hundreds of years; This is not possible because history never repeats itself. This means that the racist nationalist apostasy that Europe and America are witnessing, and the cultural and religious apostasy that the Arab countries are witnessing, will not succeed, no matter how long it takes and the numbers of dead people multiply. Therefore, everyone who dies for the sake of religious, cultural, or intellectual apostasy will die because of the insistence of the leaders of ideologies on clinging to power and exercising authoritarianism, and the persistence of the rich in exploiting the poor and the weak and suppressing their aspirations.
Ideology is a universal philosophy based on specific principles, which has been transformed into a political movement with the aim of seizing power and reshaping reality based on the vision of the leaders of the concerned philosophy and its early pioneers. Ideologies can generally be divided into three categories: a socio-cultural ideology, that is, a religious one; a socio-political ideology, that is, nationalism; And a socio-economic ideology, that is, Marxism and capitalism. While religion seeks to guide people, nationalism seeks to unite people around common slogans and goals, while Marxism and capitalism seek to improve the social and economic conditions of their followers.
Religious ideology confiscates most of human freedoms and rights, including social, political, and religious freedoms, some of his economic rights, and freedom of opinion, thought, and behavior, in exchange for a promise of life after life that science, human experience, or historical fact cannot prove or deny its existence. What makes this belief in promise reflect a personal point of view and conviction. Therefore, it is not permissible for a believer to impose his point of view on other people, nor to take control of the affairs of a society, because politics is the art of the possible, which makes it not adhere to certain principles or morals. Indeed, there is no morality in politics, and morality is not politics. In addition, the interests of the ideological leader usually conflict with the interest of society, because his presence at the helm of power gives him extraordinary power to suppress the general public, falsify their awareness, and achieve his goals at their expense.
The nationalist ideology was born in Spain in the late fifteenth century with the aim of liberating the country from Arabs and Jews, which made it ally with the Catholic Church, excommunicate non-Christians and burn thousands of them, and force those who could not escape from Andalusia to convert to Christianity. With the spread of national thought in Europe, it quickly turned into an ideology that established many national states that could only become independent by getting rid of the hegemony of the Church, which caused religious wars that lasted about 80 years, claiming the lives of about a fifth of the population of Western Europe, and ended in 1648 with the dismissal of Religion over the state. With the beginning of industrialization, nationalism turned into a racist colonial movement that killed millions of people, seized most of the countries of the world, exploited its resources and enslaved its people.
The capitalist ideology was born in the womb of the industrial revolution, developed through private ownership of the tools of production, and flourished under colonialism and the plundering of the wealth of the poor and weak peoples. While the capitalist regimes allow people in their countries to exercise their religious, intellectual, social, political and economic freedoms, they steal food from the children of the poor, the weak, and the general public on behalf of the rich, the powerful, and the political elites. While its media falsifies the awareness of the general public and promotes a culture of consumption; This enabled the capitalist system to confiscate people’s will and humanity. In addition, the capitalist system was one of the most important tools for plundering the wealth of poor and weak peoples, perpetuating their backwardness in scientific, technological and economic terms, and depriving them of freedom and liberation.
As for Marxist philosophy, it came as a response to the exploitative practices of capitalism, especially the exploitation of women and children by capitalists during the period of emergence and spread of factories. This made Marxism call for justice, and for the industrial workers class to seize ownership of the tools of production, but it turned, like other ideologies, into a political movement that seized power. Although she was able to provide a living for every citizen in her country, she deprived him of his religious, political and economic freedoms, which made her besiege his mind, confiscate his will, and unleash his instincts that contradict his humanity.
History indicates that ideological systems of government that were based on religion, nationalism, and Marxism succeeded in the beginning in enabling themselves to rule the countries they seized, and to achieve good achievements in most aspects of life, but they quickly turned into sterile and unjust systems of government, which made them end in failure. As for the capitalist ruling systems, they were the most successful ideological systems in terms of economic, scientific, cultural and technological aspects, but they did not get rid of the exploitative tendency, which enabled the political, economic and media elites to acquire most of the returns of the economic process, and to seize more than half of the wealth of the country they ruled. In light of the expansion of greed and the continuation of exploitation, the capitalist systems have lost people’s confidence in them, which has made them enter a stage of gradual erosion and collapse.
But history also indicates that ideological systems of government do not die easily, and do not disappear except after a conflict that may cause bloody wars, and that periods of deterioration and decline witness the occurrence of cultural and sometimes religious regression as well. But every apostasy, regardless of its nature and motives, is an attempt to go back and turn the hands of time back hundreds of years; This is not possible because history never repeats itself. This means that the racist nationalist apostasy that Europe and America are witnessing, and the cultural and religious apostasy that the Arab countries are witnessing, will not succeed, no matter how long it takes and the numbers of dead people multiply. Therefore, everyone who dies for the sake of religious, cultural, or intellectual apostasy will die because of the insistence of the leaders of ideologies on clinging to power and exercising authoritarianism, and the persistence of the rich in exploiting the poor and the weak and suppressing their aspirations.
