Political Compass

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Commie indeed.... I'm an anarchist with a splash of Greenie thrown in thank you....

Well, methinks I am much more conservative than the test said... maybe it's because I'm really fed up with authority (in general) right now. And those questionaires aren't the best things to do when one is moody.

But they all scored in the Capitalist-Conservative quadrant.

Yes, Democrats (and most people) believe in capitalism.

There isn't a conservative-liberal spectrum, it's authoritarian-libertarian.

And here's what I scored:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

I tried it again and got (3.25,2.41). They must have some very arbitrary scoring for each question. Maybe my mind is wired differently than what the test was designed for.

"I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed"
-Ghandi, May 1940

"Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs."
-Ghandi, June 1946

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

Why did Ghandli say all that?!

From "Uncle John's" site -

"When Gandhi was 16, he was having sex with his wife at the very moment his father died. The trauma seems to have led him to develop some odd ideas about sex. He thought married couples should only have sex three or four times ... in total. In fact, Gandhi credited his spiritual powers to his ability to avoid ejaculation, and one morning he flipped out on discovering that he'd had a nocturnal emission.

Gandhi also had an unusual way of testing his celibacy. As an old man, he would ask the local hotties to spend the night lying naked beside him. His wife was no longer temptation enough, apparently, and he described her as looking like a "meek cow."

Ghandi is way overrated.

What about Castro? He's pretty cool. Beard. Cigars. Nuff said.

You should judge Ghandi by his actions, and the changes he caused. Not by digging up dirt on him.

Isn't Nelson Mandela supposed to be overrated by a lot of people as well? ie condoning bombing on civillians (I heard this on Ricky Gervais)

Re: talking trash about Gandhi,

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi

<i>He also urged Jews and Czechs to commit a mass suicide as an act of non-violent resistance against Nazi occupation. In June 1946 he told to his biographer Louis Fischer:

"Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs... that would have been heroism."</i>

He wasn't Anti-Semetic, he saw martyrdom as heroism

re: sexual practices:

<i>Gandhi gave up sexual intercourse at the age of 36, becoming totally celibate while still married. This decision was deeply influenced by the Hindu idea of brahmacharya—spiritual and practical purity—largely associated with celibacy. Gandhi spent one day of each week in silence. He believed that abstaining from speaking brought him inner peace. </i>

And a more appropriate quotation: "The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction"

Exactly. I'd like to add that if you look for it there is dirt on everybody.

Pretty much anyone who nose me coud gess were i landed -

"Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13"

Putting me just below and to the left of smack-bang in the middle of the lower left quadrant.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08

I showed up pretty much where I expected to. I'm a Libertarian along the lines of the US Libertarian Party.

I would not say I am interested in anarchism, as the chart seems to suggest, but rather on personal responsibility and ethical standards that are far superior to what society currently holds itself to.