PS1033
Critic paper
The paper discussed the many variations of political parties, there are so many descriptions of the political parties of the west. Some of the classification of political parties includes wide membership and some are restricted to a certain class in society for example those people who are in the working class tends to join the labor party or a revolutionary party who advocates the violent overthrow of the government. Some political party also advocates the rights of the ethnic minorities of a certain country. Other political parties were primarily focusing which concerns about the environmental changes of their country.
We all know that some political parties have many members because the party is using the institutions such as the government in order to control the people, the people were required to join the party because if they did not do so they may experience problems which concerns about their civil rights and political rights. The use of mass media contributes to the increase of member in political parties because the party utilized radio, television, megaphones and posters to encourage and to fuel the hearts of the people. This system was widely practiced by the fascist regime before.
There are so many kinds of parties and this are elite based parties, mass based parties, ethnicity based, electoral parties and movement parties. We may consider useless discussing these different kinds of parties when it comes to Philippines context because if we are going to observe and analyze the parties in most of the third world countries, it is always the elite parties who won in general elections because the elite has all the resources to consolidate their power first within their own territory and eventually to the national level then they will use all means to hold to on to power. If we are going to say that they are using Machiavellian principles then I believe they are doing it perfectly well, they used