Politics This Semester

During this semester I have learned a lot about political philosophy. The first thing that I learned from political philosophy is that as a whole, we learn that we get our political ideas from political philosophers. Political philosophers molded the way our politics works today and the way it will work in the future if we didn't have the foundation of our political philosophers, politics would not be what it is today. When we talked about Karl Marx and Marxism it opened my eyes to what Marxism really is because I thought it was the same as Communism. My thoughts were completely wrong, I know now that Marxism is like Communism but it is not the same thing. Communism took the ideas from Marxism to become a way of government. The difference between Communism and Marxism is that Communism wanted one ruler over all people and Marxism wants the people to rule. I also like what I learned about Leibnitz and how he thought that everything in the world is good and he believed in  predestination. His ideas helped us realized that everything in the world is not good and how we respond to that is knowing that somethings in the world that go on are not always good. This helps to realize in politics, everything that goes on is not good and everything that happens is not always for the good of the people that are involved. I think that this classed opened my eyes to different perspectives that I had no clue about just like the book The Bookseller of Kabul. I didn't really understand what was going on in Afghanistan and why we have been there for so many years until we read this book. Now I see that Afghanistan is going through a lot of turmoil and they need our help to make it better so they can thrive on their own as I country. I am very glad that I took this class because now I know a lot more about the ideas of our politics rather than what I see on the surface.