Modern political ideologies, like those that existed before, ensure order in society and maintain its integrity. And this despite the fact that in society there are many groups, often with completely opposite opinions. That is, the political ideologies of our time - these are statements about facts and values that are relevant to a particular group, individual or party and express their goals. They serve as a framework on which the functions and structure of power in a particular society are based. All major political ideologies of our time, regardless of their essence, are inseparable from the problems of authority. Each of them recognizes its own model of society and applies its means and methods for its implementation in practice.
Modern political ideologies simultaneously fulfill two seemingly opposite roles. On the one hand, they rally together members of a particular party (integrative function), and on the other, they separate it from others (demarcation function).
The tendentious nature of political ideologies is usually pronounced. This is due to their desire to attract the most support. Ideologies give a political connotation to relations between people, groups, parties, institutions. They explain, accept or reject certain realities of social life in a particular historical period. These are common, characteristic for any time, features of this phenomenon.
Modern political ideologies, however, differ from the previous ones in the absence of an invisible axis that divided the world into two poles. This happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The concept of "West" has lost its old meaning. Japan began to be attributed to Asian countries. Now it can, together with other states belonging to the Asia-Pacific region, build relations with other regions, without looking back at political and ideological considerations.
And at the same time, the time had come, about which M. Weber had warned: an era of loss of illusions, a time of disappointment and uncertainty. And the religious teachings of the past, and various ideas and utopias that existed in the 20th century, ceased to play the role of those ideals that mobilized everyone. This happened either because of bankruptcy, or they just exhausted themselves. Nowadays, most utopias (communist, radical, socialist) are debunked. And that is a fact. As a result, people lost confidence in both revolutionaries and reformers. Nobody is scared and inspired by the great prohibitions, failures and programs. And they do not act because of complete human indifference to them.
Modern political ideologies are characterized by one important development trend: they actively borrow from each other's positions, while carrying out their synthesis.
There is another trend. This is an evolution into an independent ideology of nationalism. He attracts people by skillfully transforming ordinary, even trivial actions into a source of pride for the whole nation, and points to the elements of self-expression and desire for freedom that are present in them. A person who is convinced of this begins to feel his own involvement in the community, responsibility, finds meaning in life. Thus, his sense of alienation and loneliness is reduced.
After all, strangely enough, but in a society in which cosmopolitanization, modernization, loss of roots and depersonalization reign, the need to give meaning to one’s life does not only decrease, but, on the contrary, only intensifies. And the more vague such natural associations as family, clan, ethnos, nation, community become, the more people become inclined to join artificial communities: sects, parties, etc.
