Libertarian Left

Question 1

What is progressivism?

Answer 1

Essentially believing that progress can be made in all areas by social reform.

Question 2

What is welfarism?

Answer 2

Essentially looking at all the possible outcomes before at decision is made and thinking about who it would affect and how.

Question 3

What is eco-transhumanism?

Answer 3

The belief that the ecosystem and nature are the most important things, and that we need to improve technology to help it. Most people who support this ideology believe that this can be done by using renewable energy sources, but to its most extreme extent, eco-transhumanism wants people to improve space technology so lots of people can go to space to save the Earth.

Question 4

What is liberal democracy?

Answer 4

Where an individual’s rights are protected by a democratically elected government.

Question 5

What is technological primitivism?

Answer 5

The belief that technology is good, but the society technology has created is not good, and technology needs to be made so it does not damage society.

Question 6

What is accelerationism?

Answer 6

This is the belief that a socialist society can only be achieved by destroying the reputation of capitalism (by doing bad capitalist things to the extreme so people will become very opposed to capitalism).

Question 7

What is social democracy?

Answer 7

The belief that a socialist society is best achieved when people are persuaded to vote in favour of socialist policies through democratic and constitutional means.

Question 8

What is greenism?

Answer 8

The belief that the environment and nature should come first when making decisions.

Question 9

What is syndicalism?

Answer 9

Where there are small groups like a group of farmers that trade and they are loosely connected by a government.

Question 10

What is democratic socialism?

Answer 10

A socialist state with a redistributive economy where means of production are shared among all the workers, and the government are elected.

Question 11

What is democratic confederalism?

Answer 11

There are groups of people and they decide who runs the decentralised government that connects them.

Question 12

What is environmentalism?

Answer 12

The belief that there should be lots of rules put in place to make sure that the government protects the environment.

Question 13

What is market socialism?

Answer 13

A socialist state with free markets (where there are groups of workers that sell things and split the profits amongst themselves).

Question 14

What is left communism?

Answer 14

Communism requires a classless society, but to create this, there must be a very powerful government. To avoid the creation of this government, left communism is where a socialist state happens immediately without the powerful government.

Question 15

What is council communism?

Answer 15

To avoid the creation of a powerful government, this is where councillors will be the ‘leaders’ of the ‘revolution’, so after this has occurred, they will have no power to hold onto because they never had any proper power in the first place.

Question 16

What is Georgism?

Answer 16

This is where there is only one tax: a tax on the ownership of land. This then discourages people from buying land, so people own less land and the government gets smaller.

Question 17

What is liberal socialism?

Answer 17

This is where there are free markets (because of liberalism) and the economy is also redistributive (because of socialism). Removing monopolies and redistributing money are essentially the only things the government can do, so it is very anti-government.

Question 18

What was classical Marxism?

Answer 18

The belief that consumerism and capitalism is bad, and that people should focus on trading and not monetary gain.

Question 19

What is libertarian socialism?

Answer 19

The belief that businesses ‘enslave’ people just as much as some governments do, so if people want true freedom, this can only be achieved by a society that is not purely focused on money.

Question 20

What is libertarian market socialism?

Answer 20

Where there is a universally shared market that makes money pointless. So groups of people trade what they need with other people, and it is not all focused on money.

Question 21

What is situationism?

Answer 21

This is against having things that you don’t need.

Question 22

What is minarcho-socialism?

Answer 22

Socialism, but the government is very very small. The only existence of a ‘government’ or a ‘state’ is an organisation that punishes people for violent crime (you can only be punished for crime that harms other people).

Question 23

What is anarcho-pacifism?

Answer 23

This views violence as a form of ruling over someone else. So using violence (a form of rule) to stop another form of rule, goes against the goal that is trying to be achieved.

Question 24

What is anarcho-mutualism?

Answer 24

This is where money does not exist, and instead the focus is on trade.

Question 25

What is anarcho-collectivism?

Answer 25

There are some groups that are controlled by the workers that work within them, and the groups have their own economies within themselves.

Question 26

What is anarcho-communism?

Answer 26

Where nobody owns anything, the state does not exist, money does not exist, and people work together, and society is classless.