political indoctrination
Partisan belief implantation
Political indoctrination is the systematic effort to instill particular political beliefs while discouraging critical examination of them.
The term nearly always carries negative connotations—people rarely describe their own education as indoctrination, reserving the word for opponents: The curriculum amounts to political indoctrination.
It implies that recipients are being trained what to think rather than how to think.
- brainwashingCoercive psychological manipulation
- thought policeSuppressors of forbidden beliefs
- groupthinkConformity-driven poor decisions
- echo chamberSelf-reinforcing information environment
- propagandaBiased information for influence
party line · conformity · ideological conformity · censorship · media manipulation · Big Brother · whistleblowing · thought reform · civil disobedience · social engineering · totalitarian regimes · reeducation camp · cognitive dissonance · authoritarian control · obedience · loyalty oath · McCarthyism · polarization
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Soviet educationstate schools, state education, state universities, compulsory education, state curriculum
- Soviet Propagandaagitprop, Pravda, disinformation, state media, propaganda films
political indoctrinationopen debate
Unrestricted public discourse
free inquiry · critical thinking · Socratic dialogue · intellectual freedom · free thought
political indoctrinationfreethinking
Intellectually independent reasoning
intellectual freedom · self-directed learning · independent thought · deprogramming · consciousness raising
political indoctrinationmarketplace of ideas
Free competition among viewpoints
balanced reporting · political neutrality · free press · open society · civic education
political, politics, politic, politician, politicians, politicize, politicized, politicization, politically