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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (10103)	12/24/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Might look like this: [I think this describes our "democracy"...] Dialectical Materialism (Doctrine in metaphysics and politics) — Dialectical materialism is the doctrine or theory of history espoused by Marxism. Literally (i.e., in ancient Greek), "dialectic" means dialogue or conversation, but the Hegelian understanding of dialectic posits the progression of history in determined stages. The materialist aspect of Marxism replaced Hegel's collective consciousness (see Hegelianism) with the concept of economic classes. Thus dialectical materialism is the doctrine that history progresses in stages that are based solely on the supremacy of different economic classes: i.e., feudalism replaced aristocracy, capitalism replaced feudalism, and socialism or communism will replace capitalism — all according to inexorable, immutable laws (see historical determinism). [References from historical determinism and Marxism.] Socialism (Doctrine, movement, and Tradition in politics) — Socialism is a watered-down version of collectivism, with the same ethical content of subordination of the individual to the community but with less of a totalitarian or authoritarian bent than communism. Interestingly, in Eastern Europe they call former their political system socialism (not communism) and the word Nazism is short for national socialism. [References from capitalism, collectivism, dialectical materialism, egalitarianism, and liberalism.] Communitarianism (Idea and Movement in politics) — With the demise of true socialism as a viable intellectual force, communitarianism is now the most active philosophical opposition to libertarianism. Communitarianism is usually presented in a vague terms, but it is probably best understood as a mild form of collectivism or "democratic socialism". Totalitarianism (Doctrine in politics) — Totalitarianism is authoritarianism or political collectivism taken to its logical and physical conclusion — the state in which government possesses total control over the individual. [References from authoritarianism, capitalism, collectivism, communism, Marxism, Platonism, and pluralism.] For the record... I make no claim of completely understanding these concepts and their application. I am interested in learning and am posting only toward that end.