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Phyzzle
Jan 26, 2008
For more complexity, I don't think Communism or Capitalism count as Political systems. They are economic systems; policies that could be adopted by a ruling body, whatever form that body may take.

Political systems would be grouped like:
Direct-based Democracy
Representative-based Democracy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Anarchy

(Terms like plutocracy, despotism, and parliamentarism are various flavors of the above.)

And each of these can have either a Constitutional or Absolutist bent depending on whether the ruling body obeys well-defined limits that are very difficult to change. Communism and Socialism happen to be strongly associated with ideologies that advocate Direct Democracy and Anarchism, but in a literal sense, a monarch could enforce Socialist policies towards property ownership if he wanted.

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