Government+Types

Andrew Kolodgie Spencer Olsen Colin Kerner

There were many "government types" during the 1950's to 1999's. Obviously the two major ones were Democracy and Communism (some of the minor ones being Leninism and Socialism/Democratic-Socialism)

• a state governed in such a way : a multiparty democracy. • control of an organization or group by the majority of its members : the intended extension of industrial democracy. • the practice or principles of social equality : demands for greater democracy.
 * Democracy**: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives : capitalism and democracy are ascendant in the third world.


 * Communism**: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.


 * Leninism**: Leninism is the theory and practice of the dictatorship led by a revolutionary vanguard party. Theoretically, Leninism comprises the political and socialist economic theories of Vladimir Lenin, developed from Marxism, and his interpretations of Marxism Theory within the agrarian Russian Empire of that time. Leninism reversed Marx’s order of economics over politics, allowing for a political revolution led by a vanguard party of professional vanguards. After the October Revolution, in 1917, Leninism was the ideology basis of Soviet Socialism, specifically its Russian realization in the Soviet Union.


 * Socialism**: Socialism refers to the various theories of economic organization which advocate either public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources. A more comprehensive definition of socialism is an economic system that has transcended commodity production and wage labor, where economic activity is carried out to maximize use-value as opposed to exchange-value, including in its definition a corresponding change in social and economic relations; such as the organization of economic institutions and resource allocation; often implying advocacy for a method of compensation based on the amount of labor expended.


 * Democratic Socialism**: Democratic Socialism is a description used by various socialist movements and organizations, to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation. The term is sometimes used synonymously with 'social democracy', but many self-identified democratic socialists oppose social democracy, seeing it as capitalist.


 * Marxism** is a particular political philosophy, economic and sociology worldview based upon a material interpretation of history, a Marxist analyst of capitalism, a theory of social change, and an atheist view of human liberation derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friendrick Engles.


 * Despotism** is a form of government by a single authority, either an individual (despot), or tightly knit group, which rules with absolute political power.


 * Stalanism** or "Red Fascism" is a form of government which employs the ideals and social systems of communism. It is a totalitarianism state which uses propaganda to get the citizens to believe they current regime is good.


 * Fascism** is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy. Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right of the conventional left-right political spectrum although some scholars claim that fascism has been influenced by both the left and the right.

(Information from Dictionary) and http://wikipedia.com