Isms

Isms | Brief / Core vision | Anarchism | A moral-political ideal of a society that is untouched by relations of power and domination among human beings; There is an absence of organized government. | Authoritarianism | A system in which the political rights and interests of individuals are subordinated, usually by coercion, to the interests of the state. | Capitalism | Linking politics to the political economy, it is a system dominated by a market economy in which economic actors are generally free from state constraints. | Collectivism | A doctrine holding that the individual’s actions should benefit some kind of collective organizations such as the state, a tribe, or the like, rather than the individual herself. | Communism | Based on the theories of Karl Marx, the essential goal of this system is the socialization of societal resources, with the state owning the land, labor, and capital and using them to promote the equal welfare of all citizens. | Conservatism | A belief in the virtue of preserving traditional values and social institutions and of promoting loyalty to country, reliance on family, and adherence to religion. | Corporatism | A political economy in which there is extensive economic cooperation between an activist state and a few groups that represent such major economic actors as large industry, organized labor, and farmers. | Environmentalism | Advocacy of the planned management of a natural resources or of the total environment of a particular ecosystem in order to prevent exploitation, pollution, destruction, or depletion of valuable natural resources. | Fascism | A system in which the unity of harmony of government and society are of central importance, and forces that might weaken that unity are repressed; a top leader is usually viewed as the embodiment of the natural will, and all individuals are expected to obey the leader’s will. | Feminism | A diverse social movement promoting equal rights and opportunities for women in their