The political dictionary defines some of the political and economic terms used on this website in a manner that I consider neutral and fair.

An anarchist ideology which supports the establishment of a peaceful black market in order to achieve a free market. Agorism is merely a revolutionary theory.

The political belief that all government and laws are unnecessary.

A person who believes in anarchism as opposed to other political believes.

A society without any governing body, not necessarily following the anarchist ideals.

A belief that supports the idea of a government or a governing body in any form.

Surpreme power rested in the hands of one single person or the government. There is no rule of law.

The belief that a state is unnecessary or even merely a source of problems.

Any man-made factor of production.

An economic theory which stresses that control of the means of producing economic goods in a society should reside in the hands of those who invest the capital for production. Private ownership and free enterprise is thought to lead to higher efficiency, lower prices and better products.

1. n. A person owning capital.
2. adj. Based on the ideas of capitalism

A person who has full privileges and protection of living in a given country; a citizen is usually though of as having the right to vote. Citizenship often also implies working towards the betterment of one's community through participation, volunteer work, and efforts to improve life for all citizens.

Suppression

A belief that recognizes groups, in opposition to individuals, as moral agents.

A political belief in the success of a society based on the common holding of property by all citizens, where the state administers all production.

A belief that supports collectivism.

The belief that improvement is best obtained in a gradual manner. Not to be confused with the reactionary school.

The fundamental law of a country and government; the document that determines the type and limits of the government.

The term democracy indicates a form of government where all the state's decisions are exercised directly or indirectly by a majority of its citizens' through a fair elective process. Determining what are 'fair elections' has become a controversial issue and there are no clear divisions between democratic and undemocratic.

A form of democracy in which political power is exercised by the citizens without representatives acting of their behalf.

The study of scarce resources; the branch of social science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management. Economics is a very important aspect of politics and it has become a significant means to achieve any goals of a society.

A society in which everybody has the same rights and amount of freedom. For any two persons, person A and person B: Person A should not rule over person B or the opposite, and there should be no third person ruling over either person A or person B.

A political belief that desires government, economy and private property. Fascism also favours nationalist feelings. Anarchists and other leftists regard this merely as a further development of capitalism

• Traditionally, a label assigned to those women who desired and worked towards the equal rights of women and men
• According to a UN Conference in Nairobi, modern feminism 'constitutes the political expression of women from different regions, classes, nationalities, and ethnic backgrounds'
• In the modern West, a movement of people who genuinely believe their own lies that Western men in general still surpress women and, ironically, claim to work towards equal rights under a banner and a name that signifies that women are of greater worth than men, without regarding the truly suffering women elsewhere
• A group to which many young women and girls feel that it is fashionable to belong and which they support, without questioning its aims, merely because they think it sounds good

1. A market in which all trade is based on the wanting of both/all parts. Both/all parts should agree to undertake the trade as both expect to gain from it.
2. A market which is free from state interference.

• Political: the right to self-determination and the ability to act without unreasonable legal or social restraints
• Philosophical: the ability to act without external restraint

The latter, in my opinion, is a purer and more precise term because philosophical terms can be idealized to a greater extent than political. The former requires a quantiatve evaluation of what an 'unreasonable restraint' is and unless all external restraints are found unreasonable, the two will differ.

A belief that recognizes individuals, in opposition to groups, as moral agents.

The labour theory of value holds that when labor or its product is sold, it should receive in exchange goods or services valuing the amount of labor necessary to produce an article of similar and equal utility. Though commonly used by classical economists, modern economists utilize the 'marginal utility theory of value'.

Any natual factor of production

A set of rules imposed by some authority. In virtually any situation a modern human is exposed to, some law applies to him. The right to create and enforce the law, in its ultimate form a constitution, is questioned by philospohers and some radical political schools.

A French phrase meaning 'let do', shortened from 'laissez-faire, laissez-passer' meaning 'let do, let pass'. The term refers to the producers' right to choose what to produce and for whom to produce. The origin is uncertain, but the term can be traced back to the late Seventeenth Century.

A system of government where individual freedom is emphasized with minor government involvement.

A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others the same liberty.

Commonly used in modern economics to explain the setting of price of goods or services in an economy, the marginal utility theory of value states that the value of a good or service will be set by its highest marginal utility - that is, whoever finds the best use for a good or service will also pay the most for it and thus set its value.

A political belief that a government should rule as little as possible, and that the only purpose of government is to protect the people.

A system where the position as the nation's formal leader is not gained through an election but inherited.

A moral agent is the person or group which can be held responsible for any actions or decisions.

Opposition to the practice of violence. This can be to a greater or lesser extent, you can i.e. be a nuclear pacifist, opposed to the use of nuclear weapons, or total pacifist, opposed to the use of violence in any form. Pacifism has also defined as the position that there is no legitimate use of force, which further implies that there is no legitimate use of coercion.

A meeting for discussions of political affairs concerning the country which it governs.

A direct vote of a state in regard to a public question.

The belief that change is normally for the better.

The study of government, states and other political units; social relations involving authority or power. The ultimate aim of politics should be the best possible quality of life for all citizens

An unconstitutional government set up in the immediate aftermath of a revolution or any other collapse of the former government to govern while a new constitution is established and a new government is aquired according to that constitution.

The belief that improvement is best obtained by implementing change, however fast.

The opposition to change.

A system where the position as the nation's formal leader is not in herited but gained throughan election.

A form of democracy in which the citizens select other to govern on their behalf; an indirect form of democracy.

The unconstitutional overthrow of a government by those or some of those who are governed by it; revolutions usually require a new constitution.

The principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law; this is neglected by some monarchists.

The ability to cooperate.

An idea for the peaceful, non-revolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism; the political ideology of socialism, including values of a representative government and personal private property.

A system of economy under which all means of production are the property of the community. It is the community alone which controls the use of them and which decides upon the use of the results.

A politically organized body of people under a single government.

The belief that there needs to be a state.

• Any government in which the leaders of the government are also the leaders of the religion and they rule as representatives of the deity, or
• A government that is based on theistic beliefs.

In economics, the term utility describes the use of a good or service. Marginal utility, in return, denotes the additional return achieved by the consumption of another unit of the good, and can be shown to decrease continously.