Any resources for comprehensive, succinct, and unbiased descriptions of political and economic systems?

I find wikipedia is very a very useful resource for the information, as well as the original source material. As a wikipedia volunteer, I spend a great deal of time verifying reference sources.

To be honest, this was going to be my suggestion too. If you’re looking for something that’s relatively easy, comprehensive, and unbiased – Wikipedia is officially a good go-to at this point. But it’s stage one – anything in the source material is stage two, of course.

If you want one that covers a truly wide range of systems, be it ever so humble and prone to occasional poorly researched articles, Wikipedia is a great resource. And the editors are pretty good about flagging articles that are weakly supported by citation or that appear to present a one-sided, biased view.Those either get rewritten or removed.

If you really care about getting a deep understanding of a system, be sure to click the footnote links in the article and follow the Citation links to read in more depth and to evaluate the trustworthiness of the references used as a foundation for the Wikipedia entry.

i think you are probably more crypto fascist, or indifferent to fascism, you would probably, given the choice, ie if you simply had to choose, go with fascism rather than socialism or communism, these choices tend to be the stark one’s on offer, when the economic chips are down. But you are not alone, most well to do white folks from western democracies would probably do the same, even if they didn’t harbour stereotypical fascist tendencies.

Fascism isn’t really an economic system, it plays and manipulates the prevailing system in order to keep an elite group fully in charge, it also plays heavily upon the prejudices and anxieties of the disaffected working class, in order to rouse popular support and opposition to a group that is seemingly responsible for the economic collapse, which in reality is the inevitable consequence and cycle of Capitalist economics. But Demagogues tend to point the finger squarely at immigration and bourgeois exploitation and political corruption, thus fulfilling their objective of usurping the existing ruling order with their own twisted clique.

@mammal Wikipedia says that I’m just plain ol’ conservative.
Interestingly, the Wiki description of fascism sounds rather like communism.

very shortly after someone becomes attuned to politics they will takes sides.