Ownership of Wealth Dimension

Control of Wealth Dimension

Common Ownership of Wealth

Mixed Economic Systems

Private Ownership of Wealth

Participatory & Decentralist Control of Wealth

(Concensus and related Win-Win Processes)

Egalitarian Communalism  

Common property ownership with egalitarian, participatory or consensus based government through income sharing systems and labor credit systems.  Nearly any form of legal organization may be controlled as an egalitarian communal society.

Egalitarian Commonwealth  

A mixed economy, including both private and common ownership, with participatory government (e.g., consensus decision-making processes with site-value taxation; also some tribal cultures such as the Iroquois Confederation.)

Egalitarian Collectivism  

Individually owned property with egalitarian, participatory, or consensus based government. Corporations run as consumer, producer, & worker cooperatives, and/or employee owned and controlled businesses, such as the Spanish Mondragon Cooperatives). 

Mixed Political Systems

(Majority-Rule and related Win-Lose Processes)

Democratic Communalism  

Common equity ownership with democratic majority-rule.  Includes some “socialist” countries and societies that have minimal private property, such as the democratic and communal Israeli kibbutzim.

Democratic Commonwealth  

Economic mixture of common ownership (e.g., governmental & tax-exempt organizations) and private ownership (e.g., for-profit corporations), with a majority-rule political system.  Some “capitalist” and some “socialist” countries.

Economic Democracy  

Private equity ownership with democratic majority-rule. Corporations run as partnerships, cooperatives, for-profits and non-profits.  No government owned property, no tax-exempt organizations, no public “commons.”

Authoritarian & Centralist Control of Wealth

  State or party control of economy and government.  Communism or Fascism. Marxism, Stalinism, & others.  Minimal private property and complete control of society

  Absolutism, aristocracy, despotism,
dictatorship,
feudalism, gerontocracy, matriarchy,
monarchy,
oligarchy, patriarchy, theocracy.

Plutocratic Capitalism

  For-profit corporations in which decision-making power based upon percent ownership of stock.  Laissez-faire corporate monopoly, multinational and predatory capitalism.