Club Name : PoliticalScienceandPhilosophyDescription : This is a place for people of all backgrounds to discuss political theory. This is not Left Versus Right, or any kind of group based on hyperbole and personal attacks. This is where we can all calmly talk about our beliefs and learn from one another. I don't plan on deleting anyone (unless you decide to spam the group or post malicious html, but I don't know why you would want to, since there is no partisan agenda). We will dissect as many philosophies as possible, to their most fundamental structures.
Possible Subjects:
The Left-Right Political Spectrum
The Nolan Chart
Other Spectrums
Pro-state Versus Anti-state
Public Property Versus Private Property
Revolutionary Versus Reactionary
Unity
Liberty
Stability
Equality
Balance
Political/Economic Terms:
Abolitionism
Absolutism
Agorism
Anarchism
Anti-federalism
Authoritarianism
Bolshevism
Capitalism
Centrism
Collectivism
Colonialism
Communism
Constitutionalism
Consumerism
Corporatism
Cosmopolitanism
Despotism
Distributism
Dominionism
Egalitarianism
Falangism
Fascism
Federalism
Feminism
Francoism
Globalism
Green Environmentalism
Hegelianism
Hitlerism
Hobbesianism
Individualism
Interventionism
Islamism
Isolationism
Jingoism
Kantianism
Leftism
Leninism
Libertarianism
Libertinism
Localism
Maoism
Marxism
McCarthyism
Menshevism
Mercantilism
Militarism
Minarchism
Mutualism
Nationalism
Nazism
Objectivism
Pacifism
Polycentrism
Populism
Producerism
Progressivism (or American Liberalism)
Radicalism
Reformism
Rightism
Royalism
Separatism
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Stalinism
Statism
Toryism
Totalitarianism
Traditionalism (or American Conservatism)
Trotskyism
Unionism
Welfarism
Whiggism
Zionism
Theorists and Leaders:
Aristotle
John Austin
Mikhail Bakunin
Frederic Bastiat
Jeremy Bentham
Jean Bodin
Edmund Burke
John C. Calhoun
Frederick Engels
Hugo Grotius
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Thomas Hobbes
David Hume
Thomas Jefferson
Immanuel Kant
Peter Kropotkin
John Locke
Niccolo Machiavelli
Karl Marx
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Gustave de Molinari
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Thomas More
Thomas Paine
Plato
Joseph Proudhon
Samuel Pufendorf
Rudolph Rocker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John of Salisbury
Baruch Spinoza
Lysander Spooner
Alexis de Tocqueville
Leo Tolstoy
Gabriel Almond
Hannah Arendt
Bob Avakian
Benjamin Barber
Ernest Barker
Isaiah Berlin
Stephen Bronner
James Burnham
Cornelius Castoriadis
G. D. H. Cole
William E. Connolly
Noam Chomsky
Robert Dahl
John Dewey
David Easton
Richard E. Flathman
Michel Foucault
David D. Friedman
Carl Friedrich
Giovanni Gentile
Antonio Gramsci
Jurgen Habermas
Clive Hamilton
Friedrich Hayek
Paul Hirst
Adolf Hitler
L. T. Hobhouse
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Jean Jaurs
V. O. Key, Jr.
Russell Kirk
Ernesto Laclau
Harold J. Laski
Harold D. Lasswell
Claude Lefort
Vladimir Lenin
Alasdair MacIntyre
Ludwig von Mises
Benito Mussolini
Saul Newman
Robert Paul Nozick
Michael Oakeshott
Michael Parenti
John Plamenatz
G. Bingham Powell
Ayn Rand
John Rawls
Murray Rothbard
Carl Schmitt
Georges Sorel
Leo Strauss
Joseph Schumpeter
Troy Southgate
Josef Stalin
Kevin Strom
Charles Taylor (philosopher)
Leon Trotsky
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Eric Voegelin
Graham Wallas
Stephen L. Wasby
Beatrice Webb
Sidney Webb
Sheldon Wolin
John Zerzan