What are Political Philosophies?

# Anarchism fails to minimize coercion because it favors liberty's theoretical inviolability over its practical protection. Anarchism fails to

* Prevent coercion by strong persons and aggressive foreign states
* Prevent aggressive use or pollution of unowned resources
* Prevent unfair treatment of creditors by bankrupt debtors
* Regulate natural monopolies
* Prevent anti-competitive artificial monopolies
* Provide aid and sustenance to the indigent
* Prevent torture and extinction of organisms

clipped from humanknowledge.net Political Philosophies The most influential human political philosophies differ primarily according to the extent to which they advocate state control of resources and private economic associations. Anarchism is the political system holding that the state should not exist because coercion is never permissible. Libertarianism is the political system holding that the state exists only to minimize coercion. Welfare Statism is the political system holding that the state should protect civil liberties, regulate unequal private economic association, and provide social insurance. Socialism is the political system holding that the state should protect civil liberties, regulate unequal private economic association, provide social insurance, and monopolize certain industries and resources. Communism is the political system holding that the state should monopolize all capital. Libertarianism protects rights and promotes prosperity better than any other political system.