Political Compass [Quiz]

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Ok here is my first ever new topic hope you all like this. The only problem is that it is quite a long test.
Take it if you dare


http://politicalcompass.org/test


Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03

Left Wing Anarchist!!

Economic Left/Right: -1.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.36

heh...the questions were so transparent, I could 'game' the survey...

I'm pretty darn left

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.
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.28

It is very long so I might not take it right now. I've taken it a few times in the past and I'm always in the libertarian left quadrant. The last time, a few months ago, I was a lot more libertarian than left. Something like -1 left / -9 libertarian.

There's some other interesting stuff on that site, like this:

http://politicalcompass.org/iconochasms

Last edited by EvilKimEvil on 10 Apr 2008, 1:04 am, edited 1 time in total.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.15

I think the test's a little rigged, with leading questions designed to place many centrists where I end up. My results aren't that far from the truth though:

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

I don't know how honestly I answered, because I was in a rush and I didn't reconsider anything I clicked.
That's fine, though; I'm Nelson Mandela. Moderately left and mildly Libertarian. I think my tendencies are somewhat stronger.

Economic Left/Right: 8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

"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,"

Those people/that group does not consider themselves anarchists but rather minarchists(Ayn Rand considered the government necessary for preventing the war against all, Friedman outlined a government that controlled law, and the money supply, and the libertarian party isn't anarchist either). Groups/people calling themselves anarchists but supporting capitalism would include David Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and perhaps groups such as the Mises Institute and the Molinari Institute, really though, on some level the line almost seems blurry with Agorists, supporters of markets in the form of peaceful black and grey markets and economic secession, who see themselves as left-wingers. Finally, market anarchism, the anarchism referenced, is usually rejected by orthodox anarchists because of its support of capitalism. Most orthodox anarchists consider anarchism a rejection of capitalism and as such reject market anarchists, however, market anarchists consider themselves heirs to individualist anarchists with ideas bolstered by Austrian school economic ideas or sometimes even neo-classical economics.

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

Anyone who knows me knows this is false....

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.92

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

Spot on.

My sentiments precisely. I wish there was a middle ground response for alot of those questions, the world isn't always agree\disagree. I think half the reason I went so far left\libertarian is because my centrism in an authoritarian\right society makes me tend away from the extremes I see in my society. The other half is because I was pure Anarchocommunist not 4-6 years ago, till I matured a bit

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

The test creators said that having a middle ground would be too easy / less conclusive.