The infographic below is a political spectrum that shows six different political ideologies, and their views on which human needs should be considered basic or essential services that government should provide.
Image created by the author of this blog, Joe Kopsick
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One of the things that inspired me to create the image above, was the image below, which I have seen in libertarian discussion groups online.
This image was created to help explain the perspectives of the libertarian minarchists (advocates of the minimum amount of government necessary), and voluntaryists (libertarians who want to abolish the state as well as all coercive forms of taxation and government).
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Here is another version of the image above, which was created in order to illustrate the importance of embracing voluntaryism, rejecting the violence that the state legitimizes, and rejecting the force that the state authorizes (in order to apply the law and collect taxes, etc.).
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I urge my readers to compare and contrast the three images above, with images depicting Thomas Maslow's "hierarchy of needs".
Those who do so will notice that the services deemed basic or essential by the progressives and communists, lines up almost perfectly with the set of basic human needs which comprise the lowest level or levels of Maslow's hierarchy (i.e., those corresponding to maintaining the health, nutrition, and well-being of the human body).
Also, the services deemed basic by the communitarians and socialists, loosely corresponds with the human needs found in the center of Maslow's hierarchy (i.e., those that relate to belonging).
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Original image created on August 5th, 2021
Article published on August 5th, 2021
