NationStates Jolt Archive

How can i have a libertarian police state?

In my libertarian police state, I have an omnipresent government.

*confusion* :shock:

Life is like that. A bit like the New Labour government which has sqeezed the Conservative Party out of its territory in the UK. Politics is all about contradictions and counter-intuitive phenomena. This game is an education in that.

How can you have facist communism? Who knows, it just seems to work that way sometimes. Result is not always the same as intent.

How can you have facist communism? Who knows, it just seems to work that way sometimes. Result is not always the same as intent.
According to the quote, communism + murder=facism.

Or was that capitalism...?

:?

I stopped viewing the political spectrum as a 2D contimuum many years ago, when I realised that communism, taken far enough in a particular direction, overlaps with fascism, and a branch of free maket capitalism approaches it from another direction. Max Barry is absolutely correct in his idea that all ideologies have many more boundaries than is first apparent. The model of the NS political spectrum as three stacked lattices is probably true of the real world as well.

My NSL-Gov teacher gave us a chart that outlined the basics of the extremes, where they overlap, etc, etc... one of these days I'll have to upload it.

--Felix

I stopped viewing the political spectrum as a 2D contimuum many years ago, when I realised that communism, taken far enough in a particular direction, overlaps with fascism, and a branch of free maket capitalism approaches it from another direction. Max Barry is absolutely correct in his idea that all ideologies have many more boundaries than is first apparent. The model of the NS political spectrum as three stacked lattices is probably true of the real world as well.
Well, I use a 3D spectrum to judge candidates, but it is social, economic, and forign policy, although the more that I think about it, the more that I think that I ought to do socio-economic, foriegn, and political instead, as ecoomic liberties invariably clash with human (and often civil) rights.