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The Political Compass

TurkeyOnRye

TurkeyOnRye

Well-Known Member
This is a pretty thorough and intuitive political test. It tests on two separate planes, economic and social.

The Political Compass - Test

I am a Left-wing Libertarian. What are you?

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Crosis

Member
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The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.
In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.
Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I'm 8.75 for econ, & -6.10 for social.....due south of Milton Friedman.
Anyone else in my quadrant? It gets lonely here.
 
Penumbra

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Economic Left/Right: -1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

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In general, I like the quiz.

One big aspect I dislike is that some of the questions are not political but are likely graded as such. Questions asking me whether I find something "regrettable" or whether such and such "should" occur are not necessarily getting an accurate representation of my political views. What I think "should" happen and what I think should be legally enforced are different sets. They sometimes overlap and they sometimes do not. Some of the questions are phrased in a way to make that clear and others are not.
 
Tarheeler

Tarheeler

Argumentative Curmudgeon
Premium Member
Revoltingest said:
I'm 8.75 for econ, & -6.10 for social.....due south of Milton Friedman.
Anyone else in my quadrant? It gets lonely here.
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I'm not that far right, but I'm in the same area.
Economic Left/Right: 7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51
 
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Nothing

NONE
Facinating quiz!
It appears that most of you who have posted in here are left leaning libertarians, as am I. Oddly, as I surfed the rest of the site and it became obvious that our respective political parties have for the most part moved rather abruptly to the authoritarian right over the past couple decades. I do agree with these findings, but must admit I am a little disturbed with them. Of course the few of us who have posted in this thread can by no means be a reflection of society as a whole, especially since RF is probably made up of a disproportionately high number of people who do not conform. Having said this, a question comes to mind:
Has society as a whole drifted too far towards the authoritarian right?
In a nutshell, this is what I speculate:
Society has drifted to the authoritarian right because society as a whole has made money its ulitmate authority. Add to this the increasing threats to personal and national securities, which always leads to spending more money to protect them. It would be natural to assume that in light of the economic crash in 08' would lead to more fiscally responsible (at least appearing so) democratically elected govt, but this trend appears to have begun in the 1980's.
Admittedly I am somewhat confused for I am having difficulty articulating what I feel so I will put it very plainly; I believe that as we, as a society have increasingly put more power into money we have consciously and/or subconsciously forced our governments to be more right wing authoritarian.
What do you think?
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
This may surprise some people here (but not me). Here I am:

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I've been trying to tell some fools around here that I am not a conservative. What I mean by that, and I think this chart illustrates it well, is that regardless of my PERSONAL beliefs and practices, I very strongly defend the rights of others to make and live different choices. I also expect them to take responsibility for those choices, as I do in my own life.

Right there is where some of the confusion apparently comes into the picture when I state my personal beliefs. Just because I personally believe or practice something, and am outspoken about it, doesn't mean that I don't support the rights of others to disagree, in both principle and practice.
 
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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Nothing said:
Facinating quiz!
It appears that most of you who have posted in here are left leaning libertarians, as am I. Oddly, as I surfed the rest of the site and it became obvious that our respective political parties have for the most part moved rather abruptly to the authoritarian right over the past couple decades. I do agree with these findings, but must admit I am a little disturbed with them. Of course the few of us who have posted in this thread can by no means be a reflection of society as a whole, especially since RF is probably made up of a disproportionately high number of people who do not conform. Having said this, a question comes to mind:
Has society as a whole drifted too far towards the authoritarian right?
In a nutshell, this is what I speculate:
Society has drifted to the authoritarian right because society as a whole has made money its ulitmate authority. Add to this the increasing threats to personal and national securities, which always leads to spending more money to protect them. It would be natural to assume that in light of the economic crash in 08' would lead to more fiscally responsible (at least appearing so) democratically elected govt, but this trend appears to have begun in the 1980's.
Admittedly I am somewhat confused for I am having difficulty articulating what I feel so I will put it very plainly; I believe that as we, as a society have increasingly put more power into money we have consciously and/or subconsciously forced our governments to be more right wing authoritarian.
What do you think?
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I think they've moved in the lower left direction, ie, more social freedom & less economic freedom.
(I don't buy the labels associated with their coordinate plane. Libertarian should be the bottom right corner instead of negative Y.)

Kathryn! You look like a moderate Democrat.
 
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Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
LOL, well I have voted for moderate democrats a time or two in the past - and probably will again in the future.

I can't help it - I have a nasty habit of voting on principles rather than along party lines.

And some people just refuse to color inside the lines - and they're usually the best sort.

But according to the chart, I think that most moderate democrats would fall near the center of the upper left, not the lower left. I could be wrong.

What affected my score is actually that I think the questioning is not all that great in the quiz. It weighs more heavily in the areas of corporate issues and big business, and the questions seem a bit skewered in favor of pushing everyone a bit more left than they probably really are.

Poorly worded quiz, in my opinion. But regardless - I'd still register as a sort of centrist libertarian, low on the authoritative side of things.
 
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Flankerl

Flankerl

Well-Known Member
Ugh i hate it that they still use "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." in their test.
Its so stupid...

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Hm yeah i guess thats kind of right.
 
Alceste

Alceste

Vagabond
I thought I'd have another go to see if anything has changed. I'm still South-West of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama (economic left -8.75 social libertarian -8.72) . As this quiz is concerned, it's hardly possible to be more of a libertarian socialist than I apparently am. If I play my cards right, I might end up as one of these:

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Rakhel

Rakhel

Well-Known Member
Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72


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This is me. And most thought I was a right wing nut. HAHA Fooled you


Wait!! Does this prove the test is flawed?
 
Koldo

Koldo

Outstanding Member
Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51


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Interesting how most people get the libertarian left result.
 
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