The Three Ideologies

Generally, every country in the world has its own ideology. An ideology is a fundamental idea which every country must have. Without an ideology, a country does not have great aims to be reached and it cannot regulate the citizens. Nevertheless, an ideology does not only need an idea but also need a system or rule to be implemented to the country. Therefore, an idea and a system are considerable elements of an ideology. In short, there are three ideologies in the world. Those are socialism, capitalism, and Islam.

The first ideology is socialism. When colonialism and imperialism controlled the world, socialism was constructed against it. Because the economy was controlled by certain groups of people, socialism comes as the form of rejection of injustice economy. Then, socialism becomes an ideology which is based on materialism and the value of product equipments. Furthermore, the government becomes the center economy controller to make prosperity spread evenly in society. In addition, socialism wants to create justice, the equality of human rights, freedom, and democracy for the society. In 20^th century, socialism was divided into democratic socialism and communism socialism. Bolivia, Venezuela, and Cuba are the examples of socialist countries. Nowadays, those countries try to fight capitalism.

The second ideology is capitalism. At first, capitalism was concerned in economical sector. People who have much money can control the economy. In fact now, capitalism influences all sector of country, such as politics, education, or even culture. Capitalism comes into many countries nowadays and the United States of America is the super power country which brings its system to control the country. This ideology contains liberalism, democracy, and also secularism. Liberalism becomes the way of society’s life; democracy becomes the politics system, and secularism construct religion just for individual life. Even though capitalism leads the world, actually it causes many conflicts and issues in capitalist countries or even in the world. The most significant issue is a huge gap between rich people and poor people.

The last ideology is Islam. Many people think that Islam is just a religion like Catholic, Christianity, and so on. In fact, Islam is the only one ideology which can build Islam Country or Caliphate for 13 centuries. Furthermore, the idea and system which are brought by Islam are very different from socialism and capitalism. This ideology based on the Holy Quran and Sunna. In addition, human does not make the system or the rule, but this system or Islam Shariah comes from God which was sent to Prophet Muhammad SAW. In general, there are three aspects of life which is controlled by Islam. The first is the relationship between humans and God, the second is the relationship between human and himself, and the last is the relationship between human and society. Even though many countries become socialist and capitalist countries, there is no country which implements Islam as ideology today.

All countries in the world have its own ideology which becomes an essential element to regulate and control the country. Those three ideologies, socialism, capitalism, and Islam, have great differences in idea and system. No matter how they build their countries, an ideology still becomes a paramount substance.