Ideological conflict


  • Competing ideologies
  • Ideological rivalry
  • Debilitating ideological differences
  • Lack of ideological unity
  • Ideological opponents
  • Ideological dissent
  • Ideological opposition
  • Conflicting ideological systems

Nature

Division between ideologies and within a single ideology may lead to conflict, intolerance, prejudice, repression, rivalry, injustice, and sometimes war. Conflict between religious, political or intellectual ideologies may take the form of propaganda and other tensions or pressures, and may lead to civil war, international war or cold war. It may involve rivalry for ideological influence in Third World countries or other potentially useful or strategic areas.

Claim

  1. Ideological conflict is one of the stresses in modern society that permeates all human activities. It reaches into the classroom and the home, and makes antagonists among schoolmates, between them and the school system, and it divides families. Thus from an early age, children become accustomed to the warfare of ideas, and as adults they carry on their own ideological battles, bringing these to national and international levels. They are not only conditioned towards engaging in ideological conflicts and rivalries, but also to a conduct that is more emotional than logical and which casts their opponents into satanic roles or roles of enemies of humanity. This leads to witchhunts, pogroms, purges, prejudices and hostilities that erupt into violence.

  2. Countries which have recently achieved independence, and which are trying to establish a cultural and political identity of their own, and need effective and impartial aid from all the richer and more developed countries, find themselves involved in, and sometimes overwhelmed by, ideological conflicts, which inevitably create internal divisions, to the extent in some cases of provoking full civil war. This is also because investments and aid for development are often diverted from their proper purpose and used to sustain conflicts, apart from and in opposition to the interests of the countries which ought to benefit from them. (Papal Encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 30 December 1987).

  3. Although the world of today has a very vivid awareness of its unity and of how one man depends on another in needful solidarity, it is most grievously torn into opposing camps by conflicting forces. For political, social, economic, racial and ideological disputes still continue bitterly, and with them the peril of a war which would reduce everything to ashes. True, there is a growing exchange of ideas, but the very words by which key concepts are expressed take on quite different meanings in diverse ideological systems. (Second Vatican Council. Gaudium et Spes, 1965).

Narrower

  1. World federalism
  2. Utopianism
  3. Unfettered liberalism
  4. Undue religious influence on secular life
  5. Underprivileged ideological minorities
  6. Undemocratic pressures
  7. Totalitarianism
  8. Socialism
  9. Sexism
  10. Secularization
  11. Sectarianism
  12. Scientism
  13. Scepticism
  14. Religious conflict
  15. Religious and political antagonism
  16. Rejection of rituals
  17. Rationalism
  18. Puritanism
  19. Postmodernism
  20. Populism
  21. Politicization of technical debates
  22. Politicization of intergovernmental organizational debate
  23. Political unfitness
  24. Political radicalism
  25. Political purges
  26. Political conflict
  27. Opposition between religion and science
  28. Nudism
  29. Monasticism
  30. Modernism
  31. Materialism
  32. Marxism
  33. Male domination
  34. Loss of enemy
  35. Linguistic purism
  36. Lack of a world religion
  37. Intellectual dissent
  38. Inadequate integration of ideology into society
  39. Inadequacy of religion
  40. Ideological schism in communism
  41. Ideological revolution
  42. Fascism
  43. Factionalism
  44. Excessive claims for human development through sports
  45. Disruptive religious fundamentalism
  46. Disagreement among experts
  47. Conservatism
  48. Compulsory indoctrination
  49. Communist subversion in capitalist and neutral countries
  50. Communism
  51. Collectivism
  52. Capitalism
  53. Anti-communism
  54. Anti-capitalism
  55. Anarchism
  56. Agnosticism

Aggravates

  1. World anarchy
  2. Weakness in trade between different economic systems
  3. Unbridled competition among international organizations for scarce resources
  4. Subversion
  5. Social conflict
  6. Sectarian violence
  7. Revolution
  8. Religious intimidation
  9. Propaganda
  10. Politically emotive words and terms
  11. Political schism
  12. Political repression
  13. Political instability
  14. Obstructions to international personnel exchanges and cultural cooperation
  15. Obstacles to international exchange of cultural materials
  16. Militarism
  17. Malignant visions
  18. Lack of intersocietal resource channels
  19. Lack of international cooperation
  20. Lack of commitment to common symbols
  21. Lack of business opposition to the arms race
  22. Lack of appreciation of cultural differences
  23. International differences in trading practices
  24. Institutional conflict
  25. Ideological war
  26. Forced repatriation of prisoners of war
  27. Exclusion of opposing views
  28. Draft evasion
  29. Distrust
  30. Deficiencies in international law
  31. Deconstruction
  32. Atheism
  33. Alienation of support for international organizations and programmes
  34. Abuse of international cultural, diplomatic and commercial exchanges


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