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SCI LIBRARY

Socio-Political Systems

Edward J. Dodson

A New Approach to the Left/Right Paradigm

LIBERALISM
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 ....
CONTROL OF NATURE AND CAPITAL GOODS

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
RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS

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
PROPERTY DEFINED

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)
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS CONTROLLED BY

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
RIGHTS

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
PROPERTY IN NATURE

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....