Democracy

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This paper on political science focuses on the various models of democracy, keeping in mind various scholars and their contribution to this branch. It looks at classical conservatism, classical liberalism, socialism and 20th century liberalism. It also analyzes the present American society in contrast to modern liberalism and highlights the inequality and injustice still happening in a so-called liberal American society.

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"Socialism is essentially an economic doctrine; the essence of socialism is the advocacy of communal ownership of land and capital. Communal ownership may mean ownership by a democratic state, but cannot be held to include ownership by any state, which is not democratic. Some socialists expect communal ownership to arrive suddenly and completely by a violent revolution, while other expect it to come gradually. Some insist upon the necessity of completeness in the acquisition of land and capital by the state, while others would not mind pockets of private ownership here and there. While all forms of socialism have democracy in common and the abolition, virtual or complete, of the present capitalistic system."

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