Website review: The Political Compass - Test
Daveyboy1979 discovered this in Political Science
•112 reviews since Jun 23, 2007
political-science, politics, quizzes
•politicalcompass.org/test
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Daveyboy1979 discovered 13 months ago- Quizzes are always fun, especially when they tell you something important about yourself. This one is a great conversation piece and better than some of the mindless quiz alternatives out there.
- Skiengoddess rated 3 weeks ago
- Jus' chilin with Gandhi.
- KDBaross rated 4 weeks ago
- plenty of the questions were worded in a somewhat biased way though
- Purplecat rated 5 weeks ago
- better to start from the front page, but the political compass is seven different kinds of awesome.
- theautorestorer rated 5 weeks ago
- My political views a bit left libertarian
- ir8-n8 rated 5 weeks ago
- Jaded Test
- and73mar rated 8 weeks ago
- About The Political Compass In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional left-right line. In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional left-right line. If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it's fine, as far as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet. That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian. 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. 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: 3.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.49
- huckle rated 8 weeks ago
- Economic Left/Right: -7.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00 Reading the outcomes below, it's funny to see how the people in power fit mostly in the top right sector, whereas us "normal" peopl - the SU users - are more likely to be in the lower left. HMMMM.
- JesseMat rated 2 months ago
My political compass Economic Left/Right: -6.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.33
The Dalai Lama and I are on the same wave-length. That's good. I'm glad that guys on the right track.
- FaaB64 rated 3 months ago
- hmmm!
- lifeislikethat rated 3 months ago
- I scored: Economic Left/Right: -6.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38 That's a little to the left of the Dalai Lama, and a little more Libertarian than Nelson Mandela... and yet, strangely, I'm not a respected world leader. I don't get it.
