Competing views of state

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Classical Liberalism

Focus on Protecting and Maintaining individual liberties

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Robert Nozick

State's power limited to protection against fraud.

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Classical Liberalism view of TAX

Nozick: Taxation = Forced labor. (Forcing hardworking to work and support needy)

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Political Liberalism

Equality is more important than freedom. (sometimes freedoms must be limited to prevent inequality)

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John Rawls - thought experiment

"The original position" - taking away everything that gives us our position in society and being unaware of where we will end up, due to our self-interested nature we would choose a society where the least well-off are as well-off as possible.

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Political Liberalism view of TAX

Taxation, wealth redistribution, limited property rights all needed to avoid poverty.

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Conservatism

state required to REGULATE and ENFORCE civilized behaviour

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State as an organic enitity

Conservatists encourage social order and restrict activities damaging to society. (if people are given too many freedoms might damage societal structures)

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Anarchism

State is an oppression and we would be better off without it

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Kropotkin

all animals and humans operate according to a system of mutual aide and at first we may have a state of war but we'd realize that co-operating is best and would then flourish

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Political anarchists motivated by

the fact that no one can give a reason for why we obey a state. we are just born in one and obey out of fear not moral obligation.

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Marxisim

Human nature is CREATIVE and COMMUNAL

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Karl Marx

proposed a centrally planned state where everyone works to their ABILITIES and receives goods according to their NEEDS.

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Marxism on capitalism

exploits the working class and alienates human's from their true creative communal nature

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Problems with Marxism

difficult to asses ABILITIES. Practically impossible to reorganize a state. Would need leaders and power corrupts. Is capitalism really that bad? are we really creative and communal?

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State's power limited to protection against fraud.

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Robert Nozick

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Nozick: Taxation = Forced labor. (Forcing hardworking to work and support needy)

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Card 4

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Equality is more important than freedom. (sometimes freedoms must be limited to prevent inequality)

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