This document outlines several political ideologies discussed in POL 252-01 during Spring 2015 including liberalism which values individual fulfillment and maximum freedom, conservatism which emphasizes tradition, authority figures like the Pope, and maintaining the status quo, Marxism which focuses on community, cooperation, equality, and common ownership, authoritarianism where the state has unlimited and coercive power that can exploit and harm people, and fascism characterized by nationalism, prioritizing the military and state control over individual rights and free elections.