What Political and Economic Ideology do you Most Agree with?

[wass]

And why?

Example: I'm an Anarchist Communist because...

Give me your best argument and reasoning, try and convert me. Also, feel free to counter-point the other people if you want.

[Officer Rawse]

Socialism.

[Happysmoke193]

Social and fiscal conservative who has spent a lifetime fighting communists both here and abroad.

[Thomas D]

I like the Capitalist model and Libertarianism.

Think about it this way, law is the weak banding up and protecting themselves from the strong, so Anarchy is not a viable option.

Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried so that also is not an option.

[highvegetable810]

Libertarian

Austrian Economics of Capitalism

[healthyleeroy]

agrarian democracy

[Case]

socialism because capitalism does not efficiency allocate resources to those who need it the most because the pursuit of profit ultimately is valued above people's needs. if they haven't the means, they dont get the goods despite the fact that demand for food (etc) is universal. also, capitalism is inherently exploitative because labour is treated like another commodity despite the fact that labour determines the value of the product, and the capitalist class takes the profits from his labour while paying the labour only what is necessary. there needn't be any governments because governments are only necessary to protect the capitalist state.

[MarjaU]

Mutualist anarchism.

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Anarchism supports free association, opposes the state, and opposes hierarchy. (At the very least, anarchists oppose involuntary hierarchy; anarchists often try to create egalitarian alternatives to the semi-voluntary hierarchies too).

There are several different traditions which respect these values, and usually recognize each other as forms of anarchism. These traditions borrow ideas from classical liberalism, from early socialism, from each other, and sometimes from other sources.

People depend on each other. People tend to create their own voluntary social order, including free association, reciprocity, mutual aid, and, if necessary, mutual defense. Once people create this order, a state, or any other criminal gang, is in trouble. So the state, to preserve itself, must preempt voluntary social order.

Highleyman, "An introduction to anarchism:"
http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/sp001550.html

Danny OKC, "Anarchism, 3 minutes at a time," (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H0LYUQIP...re=related

"An anarchist FAQ:"
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ or
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html (same text)

Without the state criminalizing acts among consenting parties, and without monopolies depriving people of the means of subsistence, we get rid of most crimes of desperation. Anarchists have proposed everything from shunning to vigilanteism to deal with the remainder; I would prefer non-violence, but most anarchists propose community militias, and some propose private protection agencies instead of or alongside them.

A handful of anarchist writings on protection (from different perspectives):

http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secI5.html#seci58

James Guillaume: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archiv.../ideas.htm (see section II.F, Security)

Benjamin Tucker: http://praxeology.net/BT-IOB-II-3.htm

Dyer Lum: http://praxeology.net/DL-EA-10.htm (see section IV, Personal Security)

Errico Malatesta: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Arc...crime.html

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Economically, I think we need workers' control; we also need systems which allow individuals to associate with people from the same community, and different communities, as freely as possible.

I think that, once we abolish the artificial property claims of the ruling class, a genuinely free market would trend towards equality instead of towards monopoly.