POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days \u2014 the entire PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. Read the capsule, write the same day, don’t break the chain. Running alongside: PSIR Dynamics 2026 (the full-length chapter series) and the PYQ Vault \u2014 560 PSIR previous-year questions over 50 days, approximately eleven a day.<\/p>\n
Today’s capsule covers the three ideologies that have dominated modern political thought \u2014 Liberalism, Socialism, and Marxism \u2014 along with the three great meta-debates that followed: the End of Ideology, the End of History, and the Clash of Civilizations. We move from Freeden’s conception of ideology as a political “map” through Classical and Welfare Liberalism to Neoliberalism and its critics (Stiglitz, Piketty, Klein, Polanyi); from Utopian Socialism through Fabianism and Syndicalism to Social Democracy; from Marx’s Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism through Leninism, Maoism, and the Frankfurt School to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony; and finally to Bell’s “End of Ideology,” Fukuyama’s liberal triumphalism, and Huntington’s civilizational counter-thesis. This is one of the highest-frequency units in PSIR: 15+ PYQs between 2015 and 2024, 4 twenty-mark questions in the last five years alone, and all three ideologies carry direct overlap into GS Paper II.<\/p>\n
Pick one. Write it. Time it.<\/p>\n
If you go blank on a point, it is covered in full in your Foundation \/ OGP class notes and handouts \u2014 revise it, then write.<\/p>\n
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