| A New Approach to the
Left/Right Paradigm |
Security
Redistribution
Policy Driven
Positive Constraints
Centralized Authority
Delegated Democracy |
Liberty
Natural Distribution
Market Driven
Moral/Ethical Constraints
Decentralized Authority
Participatory Democracy |
| Positive
Law |
Natural
Law .... |
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CONTROL OF NATURE AND CAPITAL
GOODS |
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TOTALITARIANISM |
STATE
SOCIALISM |
COOPERATIVE
INDIVIDUALISM |
COMMUNITARIAN
SOCIALISM |
ANARCHISM |
| by the State and/or a
privileged elite (e.g., oligarchy) |
by the State, with wealth
production and distribution highly planned |
primarily by private
individuals and groups, with some State control of "public
domain" as societal trustee |
by private groups on a
cooperative basis, limited to what is actively used
in production of wealth |
by private individuals and
groups under voluntary agreements |
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RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS |
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TOTALITARIANISM |
STATE
SOCIALISM |
COOPERATIVE
INDIVIDUALISM |
COMMUNITARIAN
SOCIALISM |
ANARCHISM |
| directed by the State and
laws based on moral relativism |
directed by the State and
bureacratic authority, subject to extensive corruption |
directed primarily by
reliance on private. voluntary (i.e., non-coercive) arrangements,
subject to law based on reasoned principles |
directed entirely by
non-hierarchical decision-making (e.g., a tribal council) but with
risk of behavior codes being based on tradition rather than
reasoned principles |
governed entirely on the
basis of voluntary, private arrangements, without distinction
between tradition, moral relativism or reasoned principles |
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TOTALITARIANISM |
STATE
SOCIALISM |
COOPERATIVE
INDIVIDUALISM |
COMMUNITARIAN
SOCIALISM |
ANARCHISM |
| by the State and may or may
not be limited to personal items |
by the State and is
generally limited to personal items (other than housing) |
by law consistent with human
rights, so that what is produced by the individual (with the
assistance of capital goods) is private property |
by the community based on
voluntary agreement (sometimes consistent with the principles of
human rights, sometimes based on tradition and moral relativism)
|
by individuals in voluntary
association (sometimes consistent with principles of human rights,
sometimes based on tradition and moral relativism) |
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POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
CONTROLLED BY |
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TOTALITARIANISM |
STATE
SOCIALISM |
COOPERATIVE
INDIVIDUALISM |
COMMUNITARIAN
SOCIALISM |
ANARCHISM |
| a privileged minority with
minimal citizen participation |
a privileged minority, with
citizen participation at local and regional level |
all citizens under a system
of law guaranteeing individual liberty and narrowing defining the
powers of the State |
small, largely autonomous
groups and loosely cooperating on matters affecting each other |
in the absence of the State.
Societal responsibilities contractually undertaken |
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TOTALITARIANISM |
STATE
SOCIALISM |
COOPERATIVE
INDIVIDUALISM |
COMMUNITARIAN
SOCIALISM |
ANARCHISM |
| are defined and codified
into law by the State and its privileged elite |
are defined and codified
into law by the State and its privileged bureaucracy |
are attached to the
individual as a human being , are protected by positive law and
are consistent with reasoned principles of justice |
are attached to the
individual as a member of the group, are protected by positive law
but may or may not be consistent with reasoned principles of
justice |
are defined under
contractual agreements voluntarily negotiated, and may or may not
be consistent with reasoned principles of justice |
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TOTALITARIANISM |
STATE
SOCIALISM |
COOPERATIVE
INDIVIDUALISM |
COMMUNITARIAN
SOCIALISM |
ANARCHISM |
| sanctioned by the State,
generally to the benefit of a privileged elite and to the
exclusion of overwhelming majority |
held by the State and
administered by bureaucratic agencies for the benefit of the
privileged elite |
defined by law as a
privilege, with titleholdings a form of economic license the
exchange value of which is collected by government as a societal
fund for use in creating public infrastucture or distribution as a
social dividend to all citizens |
conveyed to the group, with
rights of usage allocated in some manner accepted as just by the
citizens |
sanctioned by private,
contractual agreements with titleholdings protected by the force
of universal acceptance |
| SANCTIONED
INEQUALITY |
EQUALITY
OF OPPORTUNITY |
EQUALITY
OF CONDITION.... |
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