1. Enlightenment Ideals 1. Free association
Government acts in people’s interest
Separation of Church and State
Free flow of information
Checks and balances in government
The individual is supreme
Free press, free media
Equality of women/women’s rights

2. Enlightenment Human Nature
Human nature: People are naturally good
Progress: Left alone, people will naturally create a socially and technologically better world
Government: governed with the consent of the governed. Republican democracy
Goals:
Freedom and happiness.
Equality of opportunity

3. Enlightenment Historical results: western democracies
USA, Britain, Canada, 20th century France, Israel, India, etc.
The most political and social freedom and wealth creation since the fall of the Roman Empire

4. Fascism Human Nature People need strong leadership
for the people (folk) to achieve potential

5. Fascism Human Nature (2)
Progress: The state will produce a superman warrior class that will dominate lesser races and countries
Government: All individuality is subservient to the State and its leadership
Goals: World domination. Racial theories

6. Fascism Historical Results
Fascist Italy and Spain and Nazi Germany
Wars of aggression
Slavery
Genocide and mass murder

7. Communism Human Nature
The strong will naturally dominate the weak, so equality of outcome forced upon the people by dictatorship
Progress: The state will produce a socialist paradise
Government: All individuality is subservient to the state and its leadership.
Goals: Worldwide communist revolution.

8. Communism Historical Results
The Gulag
Poverty and starvation
Show trials and mass murder
War
Mao, Stalin,
Today: North Korea, Cuba