Unconventional political philosophies

No, although my political philosophy is quite unconventional on this site.

I'm a moderate Republican.

 

Is anarchism really that unconventional? I have some anarchist tendencies, though I don't like to trap myself within any particular '-ism' label.

 

I believe that all political philosophies look good on paper since they basically assume people are intelligent and rational, but since we're generally not, they're all crap. I don't know what that makes me other than a political pessimist, which I guess really isn't unconventional.

 

Good point.

We were just discussing this survey in one of my classes a couple weeks ago: Well Known: Twitter; Little Known: John Roberts | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

It's scary and embarrassing how uneducated, and uninterested the majority of Americans are about political issues/figures.

85% of Americans know what Twitter is, but not even 30% know who the chief justice is in their own country! Oh, and who's David Cameron? :bang:

 

Me, me.

My political views are not to be described by one word, though. I'm anti-capitalist, but not communist (for a variety of reasons, including it's rather corrupt history, and the fact that it is optimised for a society in which 100% employment is possible, and in a society which is increasingly automised, that simply is ridiculous.) What I particularly dislike about capitalism is
a) the commodities and exchange markets,
b) the way its based on infinite economic growth, which is impossible, given that planet earth is more or less a closed system
c) a capitalist government is funded by borrowed money, and the only way to repay that money is to borrow more, and so the debt keeps on growing
d) they way it exploits anything it can (the planet, animals, and other humans)
e) and obviously, the fact that it creates an unequal society. And thats unfair.

From a social point of view, my views are more or less standard liberal. Pro-human rights, Pro equality, pro animal rights and all that. However, I tend to put more emphasis on freedom of speech than most.

Hmm, than was longer than i expected.

 

no radical left wing ideology is that common, which is why i dislike the anarchist/marxist divide there seems to be. i'm a left winger of some sort, but don't really know enough abt any ideology to label myself w/ it :x

 

^ good point :s but they are also quite similar, at least in as far as they both want to get rid of capitalism

 

I think you're looking in the wrong place.

 

One would hope.

 

yeah. & anyway, it's better the radical left work together rather than dividing, as there's so few of us. the EZLN & the Paris Commune also show that marxists & anarchists can work together successfully

 

I'll admit I had to go look it up. For some reason I thought it was Antonin Scalia, but I knew that wasn't right.

Now back to the topic at hand. I describe my self as a libertarian. Though I don't consider myself a member of the Libertarian party, as I don't agree with fully getting the government out of everything. As much as I don't like it there are some places I think the government needs to be involved, such as health care. Think I'll stop there else this will become a multi page rant.

 

Lol, funny this thread should come up, was reading a little on marxism for one of my econ modules.

I guess i am a little bit of a marxist and utilitarianist. My views have been influenced by my studies of economics....

I believe that the role of the state should ultimately me to ensure equality in term of freedom, opportunities, income and rights. I feel that the world would be a better place if everything was done for the good of society. For this reason i believe that party politics is bad because too often party politics leads to the wrong decision being made and manipulation of the public view.

But realistically i think such a system will fail because it ignores human nature and some fundamental concepts of economics. As a sort of compromise i think the only way forward is to develop some sort of neo-socialist society but with underlying capitalist roots; nationalised utilities and resources, but free markets and a political system that thrives on knowledge rather than on spin