-isms don't work

...for normal people.
Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Utilitarianism, and all the others.  They're all pretty much fine in the hands of intelligent, rational people.  But the problem is the masses screw everything up.  My question to you poli-tards is, would it be possible to lie to the average man and trick him into believing one thing, while secretly accomplishing the goals of one of the 'isms'?

well, utilitarianism is sweet and is generally a part of our thought-process when deciding things, but it'd be a bitch to use it as an actual form of government since you can't keep track of the "costs" of everything, maybe in a hive-mind society it would be do-able, but it's simply too complex normally, so we draw, utilitaristically, imperfect situations ALL the time.
"yes, kill the jews because i don't like them" then we have to consider what the costs will be for the jews compared to what the benefit will be to you, what about the other neighbours? the jews' family, will they get depressed`? if they get depressed, then that's another cost we'll have to include, and that's hard enough seeing as it's a sort of intrinsic or tacit value. what about the people around them? if the kids of the jews' neighbours get sad because they lost their best friends (the jews' kids), will they then do worse in school? them doing worse in school would result in them getting radically less out of the future (according to numbers anyways). etc. etc. etc. you can keep on going link by link by link untill it gets too hard.

well, the 'isms are generally theories explaining different parts of human behaviour and then reacting on it. But they all fail to come up with THE human behaviour, which is sort of obvious since we're not all alike and behaviour is a complex thing and people still argue how it's even composed.
Because of this inadeuacy they all come up with a branch of human behaviour and a branch of governemntal build-up which would fit the best for that branch of human behaviour, and because it's a branch it does, of course, not fit the entire tree.
But it is possible to trick people into believing one thing then doing another, mainly because the names of differnet 'isms get changed from time to time, or take on different meanings or konnotations. being a national socialist may not be that bad, but after the nazi party, it definately became bad, that doesn't mean you can't have a nationalsocialist policy though, and then call it something else. Also politicians change, take a little of this 'ism, add a little of that 'ism, thus never reaching one 'ism in it's totality(branch, tree, etc. Î), but you can definately lean very much towards one 'ism than others, while at the same time people aren't considering they're being in this or that 'ism.