01 · Knowledge Atlas
Switch to graph viewAn encyclopedia of social systems
Theories, political philosophies, economic models, institution types and forms of self-government — each idea traced through theory, real examples, critique and results.
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- Anarcho-capitalismIdeologyA strand of market anarchism, associated with Murray Rothbard and David Friedman, that combines private property with privately supplied law and defence.
- Anarcho-syndicalismIdeologyAn anarchist current that sees revolutionary trade unions as both the means of struggle and the cell of a stateless, self-managed economy. Its main historical expression was Spain's CNT, founded in 1910.
- Civic republicanismIdeologyA political tradition that treats freedom as self-government and non-domination, sustained by active citizens, civic virtue and mixed institutions. Rooted in Rome, Florence and Venice, and revived by Pettit and Skinner.
- Democratic confederalismIdeologyAbdullah Öcalan's programme of stateless self-government through local communes and councils federated across ethnic and religious lines, drawing on Murray Bookchin. Applied in Rojava (northeast Syria), whose status changed in 2025–2026.
- GeorgismIdeologyThe political economy of Henry George: land and natural resources belong to all, so land rent should fund public spending, ideally through a tax on land value. Tried in part in Fairhope, Alabama and Pittsburgh.
- LibertarianismIdeologyA political philosophy that gives priority to individual liberty and voluntary exchange, typically defending a minimal state.
- Market anarchismIdeologyThe family of views holding that law, security and dispute resolution can be supplied through voluntary market exchange without a territorial monopoly.