The Baha'i Studies Listserv Political terms are a language all their own. You have left (liberalism, new labour), right (conservatism, paleo consevatism), up (classical liberalism, libertarianism, anarcho syndicalism), and down (socialism, communism, populism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism). There are several dimension to consider:
Civic Cultural Personal Social Economic Fiscal Corporate Political Rationality State Viewing The first two are most important. The second two are tagged along sometimes for extra catgorizing. The last two are only in the Pornelle chart. Left: Liberal on both the first two Right: Conservative on both the first two Up: Liberal on first, Conservative on second Down: Conservative on first, Liberal on second http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart http://freedomkeys.com/nolancharts.htm I love the freedom monkeys site for info on various issues. Examples of issues: Civic Culutrural Personal Social Draft (military service) Censorship Sex (consenting adults) Drugs Immigration Education (choice to send children to) Seatbelt Smoking in your establisment (as opposed to smoking bans) Marijuana Guns Pornography Medicine (use risky treatments via your own initiative) Internet (overlaps with censorship) National ID Card (a huge identity bureaucracy) Helmets Help other countries Prostitution Tobacco (smoking) Adult entertainment Procreation Adoption Home schooling Gambling Economic Fiscal Guns Subsidies Tarriffs Education (paying for) Social Security Workplace Taxes Spending Charity Minimum Wage Business (to start one own) Hiring (to hire anyone) Retirement (to put your retirement savings where you want) Giving money (how much and to whom) Corporate Welfare (govt bailouts) Free trade __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-542485-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
