Where are you on the Political Compass?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

I'm interested to know where others are the Political Compass. The test is here: http://www.politicalcompass.org

Here are charts comparing where the UK parties stand:

Comparisons over time:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Here is an image of my own position...

[impeachthescoundrel]

6. I took the test

and I am left libertarian. I am two spaces to the left of you and one space upward.

It said: Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -7.18
What does that mean?

I assume that means the L word, And a proud one at that.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. It sounds like you're in Libertarian Socialist/Eco-anarchist territory

:)

[Binka]

19. 2 Left Of You And One Down

On the print out I got last year I am in the lower left corner of Peter Kropotkin's beard. Hey I will be in Leeds next week visiting tenshi816 any other DUers in UK care for a meet up?

[Midnight Rambler]

2. I took that test a while ago

I fall somewhere on the bottom-let corner, "Left-Libertarian," according to the test.

[etherealtruth]

3. Somewhere slightly left of Ghandi n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. about -1.5 left/right

and -4.5 libertarian/authoritarian.

[ztn]

5. I took this test back in the fall. But I just took it again:

I can't figure out how to put the image here and I just lost the page. I'm not taking it again!


I'm like 4 degrees left of center and about 5-6 degrees down.

So I'm in the moderate left liberatarian sector as I believe most people are.

There's lots of these out there. Here's a really good one:

http://www.moral-politics.com/

I'm in the capital-democratism sector in this one.

[D-Notice]

12. I get classed as a Moral Socialist

I'm -6 on moral rules but 1 on moral order...

My nearest politican is Ralph Nader

[non sociopath skin]

7. Je suis marxiste, tendance Groucho.

The Skin

[non sociopath skin]

10. Test says I occupy ground somewhere between Mandela & the Dalai Lama ...

I can live with that.

The Skin

[mr blur]

8. Never thought I'd wish it was 1972 again

although the music was better.

[D-Notice]

11. My score

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

Very left-wing & very libertarian... does this mean I'm an anarchist?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. Sounds very likely n/t

[T_i_B]

13. my results

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.59

I usually float somewhere around the centre-left on this test.

[LeftishBrit]

15. I'm a libertarian-leftist

-0.7 on the right-left axis; -0.697 on the authoritarian-libertarian axis.

I fully agree that both Labour and Tories have moved way to the right AND become more authoritarian over the last 30 years or so.

On the other one, I'm -4.5 for left/right, and 1 for moral rules. I seem to be either a 'moral socialist' or a 'social democrat'.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

16. I *think*

I'm -3.75 left economically and -6.67 libertarian socially, but I'm pretty sure I got some of the questions wrong - my brain is half asleep, and I kept having difficulty working out which way round the question was phrased... "Do you disagree with the claim that ending the ban on homosexuals in the military would not be a bad thing"?

[Coastie for Truth]

17. Fun

Here's where I came out

The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

Mindless recreation but fun.

The silly thing - I was a hard line leftie when I lived "mid-continent" - but when I moved to the San Francisco area:

• My politics relative to my personal history moved a little to the left,
• But, I moved to the center compared to the local community

[sweetheart]

18. silence

I took the test today and said nothing,
knew knothing and wondered not,
having no opinion or ideas whatsoever,
just observing what is what.

[Oggy]

20. Further left than I expected

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26

[Donald Ian Rankin]

21. Hmm.

I think that any scale that categorises the BNP as being considerably "left" of the Lib Dems and Labour is probably not using the term in any sense I'd recognise.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Have you read their comment on that?

They explain, at length, that the left/right scale is economic.

Once you accept that left and right are merely measures of economic position, the "extreme right" refers to extremely liberal economics that may be practised by social authoritarians or social libertarians.

Similarly, the "extreme left" identifies a strong degree of state economic control, which may also be accompanied by liberal or authoritarian social policies.

It's muddled thinking to simply describe the likes of the British National Party as "extreme right". The truth is that on issues like health, transport, housing, protectionism and globalisation, their economics are left of Labour, let alone the Conservatives. It's in areas like police power, military power, school discipline, law and order, race and nationalism that the BNP's real extremism - as authoritarians - is clear.

This mirrors France's National Front. In running some local governments, they reinstated certain welfare measures which their Socialist predecessors had abandoned. Like similar authoritarian parties that have sprung up around Europe, they have come to be seen in some quarters as champions of the underdog, as long as the underdog isn't Black, Arab, gay or Jewish ! With mainstream Social Democratic parties adopting - reluctantly or enthusiastically - the new economic libertarian orthodoxy (neo-liberalism), much of their old economic baggage has been pinched by National Socialism. It's becoming the only sort of socialism on offer. Election debates between mainstream parties are increasingly about managerial competence rather than any clash of vision and economic direction.

The BNP are far more interested in protectionism than New Labour or the Lib Dems. The have bits of policies that, taken on their own, are definitely to the left of Labour, eg

Increased investment is needed in Britain's public transport system to bring it up to the highest standards in the world. The fiasco of rail privatisation, with different companies running services and tracks, has led to higher fares and lower safety standards. The BNP would end the nonsense of private transport companies making huge profits through public subsidies. Those private services which are unable to operate profitably in the “free market” will have those subsidies reduced and removed and operations brought back into public ownership. The British taxpayer will no longer be fleeced to boost profits for private companies.

[SoftUnderbelly]

23. -10.00, -8.05

some questions on there are ridiculous.

what the fuck has astrology got to do with anything?

and also this question:
"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

'strongly agree' is the only answer that can be given there

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. You'd answer 'strongly agree' to that?

I'd take that as you agreeing that it is an advantage - which would be a totalitarian point of view. Yet your score is strongly liberal ('libertarian', as they argue is correct). Surely you'd reply 'strongly disagree' to the question?

I agree that the astrology question is bizarre - I can't see where it puts you economically or socially.

[SoftUnderbelly]

26. you have it wrong

"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

i do not agree with one party states, however i do agree with the fact that a one party state avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. But do you regard it as a 'significant advantage'?

If you do, then you do have some liking for one-party states. If you think it's an advantage, but an insignificant one (perhaps because argument produces better solutions), or it's a disadvantage (because decisions arrived at without consent are intrinsically bad), then I'd say you should disagree with the statement.

[SoftUnderbelly]

29. again...

ive actually had this same argument on another forum where two sides were reading the question completely differently.

the question again:

"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

all political systems have advantages/disadvantages. one of the advanatges of a one party state is that the political process can move a lot quicker due to lack of opposition. i am just recognising this advantage without necessarily endorsing it. (because clearly a no party state is the best system)

[moggie]

30. But is that always an advantage?

You say "one of the advanatges of a one party state is that the political process can move a lot quicker due to lack of opposition". But a one-party system can move you quickly and efficiently into the abyss. The lack of an opposition is only an unalloyed advantage if you happen to be part of the ruling apparatus. For the rest of the country, it could be an advantage, a disadvantage, or a complete disaster.

[acmavm]

25. Libertarian. In about the same location as Nelson Mandela.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.44

[evermind]

28. My god, I'm a moderate!

At only -4.75 left and -5.54 libertarian.

You dirty bomb-throwing anarchist extremists!

;-)

[ikri]

31. Apparently I've become more left-wing and more libertarian

Since I last took the test.

I was -7 something on both the last time I did the test, now I'm:

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

And on the Moral Politics test I scored -4.5 on the Moral Order axis and 2.5 on the Moral Rules axis

[AX10]

32. kick