My Political Compass
Dec. 18th, 2007 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krowfaceI'd love to actually post a picture of the diagram that goes with my political stance, but unfortunately, politicalcompass.org's webmaster doesn't quite know how to do that.
So here's the dry and raw data:
On a scale of 10/-10 in economic idealogy, where -10 is Collectivism and 10 is Libertarian, I am at -6.12.
On a scale of 10/-10 in social idealogy, where -10 is Libertarian and 10 is Fascism, I am at -4.82.
I'm basically labeled, according to this test, a sort of Libertarian Communist, which groups me with world leaders and political figures like Tenzin Gyatso (the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama), Ghandi, and Nelson Mandela. Which is the sort of company I can totally get along with.
If you're still a little confused about this political compass, here's some more info to keep in mind...
So there you have it. My Political Compass. Feel free to try it for yourself and comment with the results.
Oh, and if you're curious, I'm a supporter of Amnesty International, HRC, and WWF. I used to be a very vocal political activist in my youth (lol, ten years ago), but now I've calmed down a lot. I'm much more subtle nowadays.
So here's the dry and raw data:
On a scale of 10/-10 in economic idealogy, where -10 is Collectivism and 10 is Libertarian, I am at -6.12.
On a scale of 10/-10 in social idealogy, where -10 is Libertarian and 10 is Fascism, I am at -4.82.
I'm basically labeled, according to this test, a sort of Libertarian Communist, which groups me with world leaders and political figures like Tenzin Gyatso (the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama), Ghandi, and Nelson Mandela. Which is the sort of company I can totally get along with.
If you're still a little confused about this political compass, here's some more info to keep in mind...
"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 arbitary 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."
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."
So there you have it. My Political Compass. Feel free to try it for yourself and comment with the results.
Oh, and if you're curious, I'm a supporter of Amnesty International, HRC, and WWF. I used to be a very vocal political activist in my youth (lol, ten years ago), but now I've calmed down a lot. I'm much more subtle nowadays.
