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Uncover the Shocking Truth Behind Every Political Ideology!

Helen
6 min readJul 2, 2024

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Anarcho-Communism

Anarcho-communism combines characteristics of anarchy and communism, advocating for the abolition of private property but the retention of personal property and collectively owned items. Goods and services considered personal property include items intended for personal use, such as a toothbrush, a house, clothes, and a vehicle. The owner has the right to exclude others from personal items. Private property, on the other hand, usually refers to something that generates value for its owner, like a factory or a mine, without the owner necessarily having to perform any physical labor. Anarcho-communism believes in the abolition of the state and all structures of capital, leading to a stateless, classless, and post-monetary society where the population is given full control over policymaking.

Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism has multiple competing definitions. It’s generally associated with policies like privatization, deregulation, globalization, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society. It’s sometimes also associated on the libertarian left side with managerial capitalism, which advocates for the dilution of ownership within society to a point where owners can no longer exert…

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Helen
Helen

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I’m a board member for the Harvard Creative Writing Collective and an outreach associate director for Harvard Women in Computer Science.

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