Political Science

Any visionary system embodying perfect political and social order

wise philosopher who govern's Plato's ideal city in the Republic

In marxist political theory, the ideal society in which wealth is distributed according to principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

In marxist theory, the political stage immediately following the workers' revolution, during which the communist party controls the state and defends is against a capitalist resurgence or counterrevolution; leads into pure communism and the classless society

a school of psychological thought that holds that the way people act is determined by the stimuli they receive from the environment and from other persons and that human or animal behavior can be manipulated by carefully structuring the environment to provide positive stimuli for desired behavior and negative stimuli for unwanted behavior

the carefully programmed use of towards and punishment to instill desired patterns of behavior in an individual or an animal

the characteristics that human beings have in common and that influence how they react to their surroundings and fellow humans

the science of controlling the hereditary traits in a species, usually by selective mating, in an attempt to improve the species

a society whose creators set out to build the perfect political order only to discover that they cannot remain in power except through coercion and by maintaining a ruthless monopoly over the means of communication

a marxist category of analysis describing what happens after capitalism is overthrown, private property and social classes are abolished, and the need for coercive state power supposedly disappears