Can anyone explain these things to me?

Question

I suppose I've always been too embarrassed to ask.....Post-modern, Marxism,fascist,right wing and left wing

Answer 1

They are all names!!

Answer 2

marxism=communism
fascist-gov. with a dictator who has all the power. usually uses millitary to show power and strength. Think of Mussolini's fascist gov. in the 1930's-40's.
right wing- term used to describe people with a conservative view on politics(republicans)
left wing- term used to describe people with a more liberal view on politics(democrats)

Answer 3

Postmodernism is an idea that has been extremely controversial and difficult to define among scholars, intellectuals, and historians, as it connotes to many the hotly debated idea that the modern historical period has passed. Nevertheless, most agree that postmodern ideas have influenced philosophy, art, critical theory, literature, architecture, design, interpretation of history, and culture since the late 20th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

Marxism refers to the philosophy and social theory based on Karl Marx's work on one hand, and to the political practice based on Marxist theory on the other hand (namely, parts of the First International during Marx's time, communist parties and later states). Marx, a 19th century German, Jewish-born atheist, socialist philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, often in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, developed a critique of society which he claimed was both scientific and revolutionary. This critique achieved its most systematic (albeit unfinished) expression in his most famous work, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, more commonly known as Das Kapital (1867).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

Fascism (IPA: [ˈfæʃɪzm]) is a radical political ideology that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, anti-liberalism and anti-communism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist

In politics, right-wing, the political right, and the right are terms used in the spectrum of Left-Right Politics, and much like the opposite number of Left Wing...
The term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789. The nobility, members of the Second Estate, generally sat to the right. In the successive legislative assemblies, monarchists who supported the Ancien Régime were commonly referred to as rightists because they sat on the right side
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics