The Political Compass - Test
The Political Compass - Test
Please take 2-5 minutes of your time to see where you stand politically on this graph:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitrary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period
You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.
The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy)
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.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitrary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period
You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.
The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy)
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.
Re: The Political Compass - Test
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.51
Here is where I stand, meh.
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.51
Here is where I stand, meh.
Re: The Political Compass - Test
I don't know how to save the image, I am useless when it comes to technical things but this was my score:
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36
Looks like I am in the Green Section with Ghandi
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36
Looks like I am in the Green Section with Ghandi
Re: The Political Compass - Test
If you use windows 7 or have vista hit search and look up "snipping tool".
Then save that on your desktop and use www.imgjoe.com which is like tinypic but no annoying captcha crap. ;D
Then save that on your desktop and use www.imgjoe.com which is like tinypic but no annoying captcha crap. ;D
Re: The Political Compass - Test
Thanks Apocales..... I have been given instructions on numerous occasions and I just don't get it hahahahahahahaha. I have a mental block or something
The Pigeon has to make it so I can somehow save on my own Computer and then link to that
Even then I would probably forget where I saved it!
The Pigeon has to make it so I can somehow save on my own Computer and then link to that
Even then I would probably forget where I saved it!
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Re: The Political Compass - Test
Mine was about 3 spaces down from yours, Apocales and in the same spot left to right.
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Re: The Political Compass - Test
Last time I took this I believe I was right around Gandhi. It's somewhere on amkon. I'll take it later. I need to decompress.
Re: The Political Compass - Test
and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitrary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period
Anarcho-syndicalism :http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/index.php
Re: The Political Compass - Test
I did this test when someone posted it at AmKon a while back. I am so left I almost fell of the chart, hahaha.