The Main Tenets of Anarchism. Anarchism is the belief that the best government is absolutely no government. ...

While anti-statism is central,

anarchism entails opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations, including but not limited to, the state
system.

Absolutism. Absolutism, the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a
monarch or dictator.

Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support limited government,
individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism (free markets), democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality,
internationalism, freedom of speech ...

True socialists advocate a completely classless society, where the government controls all means of production and distribution of goods. ... As
we've learned,socialism is difficult to define because it has so many incarnations. One of the thingssocialists agree on is that capitalism causes
oppression of the lower class.

Ideology. Ideology, a form of social or political philosophy in which practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones. It is a system of
ideas that aspires both to explain the world and to change it.
In social studies, a political ideology is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social
movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for
a certain social order. A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used.
Some political parties follow a certain ideology very closely while others may take broad inspiration from a group of related
ideologies without specifically embracing any one of them. The popularity of an ideology is in part due to the influence of moral
entrepreneurs, who sometimes act in their own interests. Political ideologies have two dimensions: (1) goals: how society should be
organized; and (2) methods: the most appropriate way to achieve this goal.
An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of
government (e.g. autocracy or democracy) and the best economic system (e.g. capitalism or socialism). The same word is
sometimes used to identify both an ideology and one of its main ideas. For instance, socialism may refer to an economic system, or
it may refer to an ideology which supports that economic system. The same term may also be used to refer to multiple ideologies
and that is why political scientists try to find consensus definitions for these terms. While the terms have been conflated at
times, communism has come in common parlance and in academics to refer to Soviet-type regimes and Marxist–Leninist ideologies
whereas socialism has come to refer to a wider range of differing ideologies which are distinct from Marxism–Leninism.[1]
Political ideology is a term fraught with problems, having been called "the most elusive concept in the whole of social
science".[2] While ideologies tend to identify themselves by their position on the political spectrum (such as the left, the centre or
the right), they can be distinguished from political strategies (e.g. populism as it is commonly defined) and from single issues around
which a party may be built (e.g. civil libertarianism and support or opposition to European integration), although either of these may
or may not be central to a particular ideology. There are several studies that show that political ideology is heritable within
families.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
The following list is strictly alphabetical and attempts to divide the ideologies found in practical political life into a number of groups,
with each group containing ideologies that are related to each other. The headers refer to names of the best-known ideologies in
each group. The names of the headers do not necessarily imply some hierarchical order or that one ideology evolved out of the
other. Instead, they are merely noting that the ideologies in question are practically, historically and ideologically related to each
other. As such, one ideology can belong to several groups and there is sometimes considerable overlap between related ideologies.
The meaning of a political label can also differ between countries and political parties often subscribe to a combination of ideologies

THE history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of
a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of
the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity
of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so
are the convict's garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on.Anarchism could not hope to escape the
fate of all other ideas of innovation. Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must needs meet with the
combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism
would necessitate the writing of a whole volume. I shall therefore meet only two of the principal objections. In so doing, I shall attempt to
elucidate what Anarchism really stands for.The strange phenomenon of the opposition to Anarchism is that it brings to light the relation between
so-called intelligence and ignorance. And yet this is not so very strange when we consider the relativity of all things. The ignorant mass has in its
favor that it makes no pretense of knowledge or tolerance. Acting, as it always does, by mere impulse, its reasons are like those of a child."Why?"
"Because." Yet the opposition of the uneducated to Anarchism deserves the same consideration as that of the intelligent man.What, then, are the
objections? First, Anarchism is impractical, though a beautiful ideal. Second, Anarchism stands for violence and destruction, hence it must be
repudiated as vile and dangerous. Both the intelligent man and the ignorant mass judge not from a thorough knowledge of the subject, but either
from hearsay or false interpretation. A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried
out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is
wrong and foolish. The true criterion of the practical, therefore, is not whether the latter can keep intact the wrong or foolish; rather is it whether
the scheme has vitality enough to leave the stagnant waters of the old, and build, as well as sustain, new life. In the light of this conception,
Anarchism is indeed practical. More than any other idea, it is helping to do away with the wrong and foolish; more than any other idea, it is
building and sustaining new life.