Absolutism Vs Liberalism Research Paper

There are two political ideologies within the United States political system. And those are liberalism and conservatives. While liberals are for less government they operate under the assumption that everyone is a rational being, and can solve problems and progress without government. Then we have the conservatives who in contrast to the liberals value and emphasize tradition and already established practices to guide them into the future. While this is a very blanket and general description of the political ideologies liberalism and conservatives. There are different variations of the conservatives and liberalisms. Sometimes the liberals want more government. And sometimes the conservatives may want a little less government. While these political …show more content…
This includes basic industries, banks, agricultural systems, and communication networks. A private sector can still exist even under a democratic socialism economic system. But, all the major indudstrics and corporations are owned by the state instead of private citizens, which is how our government is now. So , with the government in charge of major industries and corporations it would make them responsible for planning and directing the economy. Democratic socialism would then shift decisions from private to public institutions. Decisions concerning investments, prices, and wages would be placed with the public institutions. Socialism is comparable to communism because they both have the same idea with how much power the government should have. The difference being that communists get people to accept their system through violent revolution. Socialists reject that idea and instead want the adoption of socialism to come through peace and agreement. While socialists may not agree with our capitalist economic system they do support the democratic values of the constitution of the United States of America One of the most essential ideas of socialism is everyone is equal in terms of economics. Socialists say that capitalism has succeded in making the country wealthy but has continually failed in one area, and that area is …show more content…
And they felt the only role government should have was to protect basic human rights. A few of those basic rights include the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to property. The libertarians also didn’t want the government involved in the private lives of its citizens. And what I mean by that is they wanted to repeal all of the laws on victimless crimes. The included crimes are prostitution, pornography and gambling. They wanted an unregulated free market that wouldn’t regulate the price of thigns like Milk. They also wanted to get red of the laws that prevent people from smoking marijuana. Libertarians were different from liberals in the sense that they did not support laws that want to expand the arm of the government in the economy. And then they are different from the social conservatives who supported social laws such as abortion and pornography and libertarisns did not want laws that regulated moral or the economic life of the people of the United States. Libertarians also do not want American to be the world police anymore. They paretty much want the military to have no alliances and for the country to not provide aid to others. Because they felt if you took part in either of those things that, that alone could lead to war. Not only that but libertarians wanted to reduce the defensive budget and they wanted the military defensive policy to be shown to be in