Political Taxonomies

Thanks to a comment by Mr. Meval on a post at Catallarchy, I found this:

My own, simpler, taxonomy — which anarcho-capitalists will reject — looks like this:

• Anarchy — “might makes right” without an effective state to referee the fight

• Libertarianism — the minimal state for the protection of life, property, and liberty

• Communitiarianism — the regulation of private institutions to produce “desirable” outcomes in such realms as income distribution, health, safety, education, and the environment

• Statism — outright state control of most institutions, reached either as an extension of communitarianism or via post-statist anarchy or near-anarchy, as in Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, and Mao’s China.