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What political alternatives are there to the current western system other than socialism/communism? If any.

I've been reading a lot about Marxism and other types of communism. This made me wonder if there are any other alternatives to liberalism? I would guess there would be some type of anarchism but, from what I've heard a lot of anarchists are also Marxist of some sort. Thank you!
gpt
Anarchists are not Marxist, they're for the most part anti-capitalist leftists, but not Marxist.

Fascists/Corporatists (for example you might try *The Doctrine of Fascism* by Giovanni Gentile and Mussolini), Georgism/Communalism (similar to socialism), Anarcho-Capitalism (e.g. Huemer's *The Problem of Political Authority*), Legalism (e.g. Han Feizi), Neo-Confucianism, etc.

Some political ideologies have also disappeared (if they ever really caught on), such as that espoused by Aristotle's *Politics* (although it has intellectual children today in communitarianism), Plato's *Republic* (also has intellectual children), More's *Utopia*, the Feudal system (which had its fair share of conservative defences back in the day), etc.