The Political Compess Test

[cupocity303]

Just answer the questions as truthfully as you can, and find out where you stand, Test here:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test


Here are my results:

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.26











EDIT:


Retook the test to see if anything's changed and I think I gave more thought to my answers this time:






Looks like I'm closes to Ralph Nader, ROLF at Hillary & Obama at the Right-wing side:

[baddest]

I'm pretty sure I'm either a Social Democrat, or a Socialist Libertarian but **** it why not indulge:

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 arbitrary 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: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

AUTHORITARIAN LIBERTARIAN? hmm, sort of right. questions they needed more then an agree or disagree because these aren't simple answers.

[Mushroom]

[Benny Leonard]

I took the test kind of fast so there wasn't a lot of sitting around thinking about it. The only questions I really remember being for was for sexxxx and being against the religious stuff. That's what matters anyway ;D



Economic Left/Right: -5.62

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95

[GOAT86]

[- v e t -]

some questions were BS....

[Mushroom]

Quite a few lefty libertarians in here

[Benny Leonard]

some questions were BS....

I think some were just questions where you were like..."mmmm, good question...let me think about that and get back to you."

[- v e t -]

I think some were just questions where you were like..."mmmm, good question...let me think about that and get back to you."

well, to me, some of them were more than just the four answers... and some of the questions didnt have adequate detail for me to 100% endorse my choice, ya dig?

[Dick Buffman]

I got a 6 on the left winger scale.