[CLUE-Talk] Political compass

[Alex Young]

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08

I think some of the questions are a bit hard to answer.   Here's one:

"Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity."

Personally, I value making peace with others, but the question implies acceptance of the socioeconomic establishment, something I have no desire to do, nor belief in doing.

Also, it seems to me that a simple graph can hardly accurately convey ones political ideas or ambition.
The labels may also be a little out of kilter if one uses the US definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian) of Libertarianism.     
If you use the European definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism), I think it may have some relevance, although I think this scale might better be labeled Anarchist/Fascist, or Anti-Statist/Statist.

As for the Left/Right scale, I think it would be better to label it Socialist/Capitalist

-Alex

> Here's an interesting anonymous survey to determine
> where you stand in the political arena.  Good
> questions, designed to evoke responses.  It plots your
> responses on two axes, economic and social, and gives
> some example historical figures for each quadrant for
> reference.
> 
> http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/index.html
>  
> I ended up in the 'Libertarian Left' quadrant (Gandi,
> Dali Lama, Nelson Mandela) - not surprising if you've
> read my posts here. :)
> 
> Economic Left/Right: -2.00 
> Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
> 
> If your bored at work take it and post your results. 
> I'm curious to see how other CLUEbies rate - I suspect
> a lot of us (by our interest in Linux) may end up on
> the Libertarian side.  But, you never know.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> =====
> the quality of thoughtfulness - http://isuma.org/

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