Michael Mitchell: Archive

Here are ten absolute truths about politics.

• 01. Politics is concerned with studying and defining social systems.
• 02. Political views are logically dependent on moral views.
• 03. The concept of individual rights functions as a bridge between morality and politics.
• 04. Whether a political system violates or protects human rights determines its moralness.
• 05. Socialism is an immoral political system because it violates property rights.
• 06. Capitalism is a moral political system because it protects property rights.
• 07. Though morality is concerned with politics, politics is not concerned with morality.
• 08. Government is an institution political systems require to define and enforce rules of social conduct.
• 09. A political system needs a foreign policy to manage social relationships beyond its delegated purview.
• 10. The theory of freedom from coercion has never been practiced under any political system.

Thanks for considering these ten facts about politics. I hope they did their part in proving to you political systems must be morally judged.