Political theory, explained simply
Short study cards for students and debaters: what each idea means, how it works, the strongest objections, and points you can actually use in an argument.
What is Marxism?
History is driven by class conflict, and capitalism will be replaced by collective ownership.
What is Capitalism?
Private owners compete in markets, and prices coordinate what gets produced.
What is Socialism?
Key resources are owned or controlled collectively so their benefits are shared broadly.
What is Fascism?
An authoritarian, ultranationalist system that fuses state and nation and crushes opposition.
What is Liberalism?
Individual rights and limited, accountable government come before collective or state claims.
The Communist Manifesto — Summary
Marx and Engels' 1848 text compressed into one card.
All study cards
49 ready-made cards across politics, economics, philosophy, history and sociology.
- Accelerationism
- Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
- Anarchism
- Anarcho-Syndicalism
- Baumol's Cost Disease
- Beauvoir's The Second Sex
- Capitalism
- Communism
- Comparative Advantage
- Distributism
- Durkheim's Anomie
- Existentialism
- Fascism
- Foucault's Biopolitics
- Georgism and Land Value Tax
- Girard's Mimetic Desire
- Gramscian Hegemony
- Hayek's Knowledge Problem
- Hobbes' Leviathan
- Kant's Categorical Imperative
- Karl Marx
- Keynesian Economics
- Kondratiev Waves
- Liberalism
- Machiavelli's The Prince
- Mutual Aid (Kropotkin)
- Neoliberalism
- Nietzsche's Will to Power
- Orwell's 1984
- Ostrom's Commons Governance
- Plato's Republic
- Polanyi's Double Movement
- Rawls' Veil of Ignorance
- Schmitt's State of Exception
- Socialism
- The Communist Manifesto
- The Enlightenment
- The Fall of the Berlin Wall
- The French Revolution
- The Great Depression
- The Industrial Revolution
- The Iron Law of Oligarchy
- The Malthusian Trap
- The New Deal
- The Peace of Westphalia
- The Social Contract
- Universal Basic Income
- Utilitarianism
- Weber's Protestant Ethic
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