The following is a reflection I'm sharing with my online Introduction to Political Economy (it has a different name, but that's what it is) course. It's long and therefore continued after the jump. Textbooks and politicians make frequent use of labels for socio-political-economic systems. Typically these labels identify some particular ideology as an "ism".  Thus … Continue reading ‘Ism’s, Rhetoric,and the Branding of Ideology in the 21st Century