POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

Abstract

The objectives of this article were to study; 1) the development of ideology and political ideology 2) the important categories of political ideology, and 3) the political ideology in Thai society. From the study, it was found that the Ideology wascreated by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, Comte de Tracy in the late of 18th century with four meaning ; firstly, to designate a new empirical science of ideas, secondly, to denote an affiliation to a form of secular liberal republicanism, thirdly, a pejorative connotation implying intellectual, and lastly, a limited sphere to denote political doctrine in general. It was also found that there were 2 important political ideologies; the far-left politics comprised of liberal and radical, and the far-right or the Fascism ideologies which were more conservativeand reactive. The study also revealed that Thai politics was more conservative than liberal and sometimes it tend to be more conservative or reactive as Fascism.

Keywords . The Political Ideology, Thai Political Ideology, Liberal, Conservative, Fascism