I'm trying to understand, in the simplest terms, the definitions of the dfferent political systems?
By “simplest terms” I mean, let’s say there’s a hypothetical island with a bunch of kids stranded on it. After they get their basic survival needs figured out, they start to get organized, and establish a marketplace. The kids who are good at fishing trade their day’s catch to the kids who know where the berries are, the kids with carpentry skills build shelters for the other kids in exchange for food, so on and so forth. If, in Scenario A, the less scrupulous kids start bludgeoning the weaker kids over the head with sticks and other kids hide in the bushes and throw rocks at the perpetrators and everything dissolves into turmoil and then the wiser kids hold council and make an educated decision to not intervene, believing that survival-of-the-fittest is the natural social order, and it just continues as a free-for-all, that would be an example of Anarchy, if I’m correct? I don’t mean any of this to be sarcastic, I’m genuinely confused and I’m trying to sort out what these terms mean. Scenario B: the council of wise kids delegate a law-and-order caste to prevent coercion and violence from taking place in the market. They invent a unit of currency (a certain kind of acorn) and come up with an intricate measure of an item’s worth. The kids all compete for their earnings, and eventually some douchebag figures out a way to piss in a jar and flavor it with some special powder that makes it taste delicious, through supply and demand he becomes the richest kid on the island, then everyone gets sick from his piss and they complain to the wise-kid council that Douchebag Urinade Junior should be punished and his stash of acorns should be seized and redistributed. If the wise-kid council decides to take no action, believing that the duped customers are to blame for their naivete, and that this misfortune will teach people a lesson to become more conscientious consumers, that would be an example of…capitalism? Scenario C: If, in light of the urinade debacle, the wise-kid council decides to abolish the whole acorn currency system and say “all right, here’s the deal. You children can’t be trusted with anything, so how about we all go out there and work our assess off all day, bring our goods to market, throw it all in one big pile, and at the end of the day we’ll just divide it all evenly among you, that way everybody eats, everybody’s happy, and we’re all busy working hard, so nobody has time to think of greedy, nefarious methods to trick each other into drinking dick.” Would that be the gist of socialism? Scenario D: the kids in the most prominent positions of leaderships share an otherworldly experience in which an ethereal voice speaks to them from a thundercloud and reveals to them the metaphysics of the universe, and they hold a rally to inform all the kids that they have start performing certain rituals and running the community in certain ways because the spirits-of-the-clouds declared that it was so, and everybody complies. Would that be religious extremism? Am I on the right track with any of those, or am I way off? And what other political systems did I leave out? If someone can break it all down for me, that would be awesome. And furthermore, what human values are at the core of each of the systems, and is there any common, universal goal that they all agree on? What’s the deal with all of it? Can someone explain to me very simply how the world works, how it should work, and all the possible ways people might think that it should or that it has or that it will?
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