Where are you on the political Compass

[Smurf]

www.politicalcompass.org
click the "take the test" link at the bottom of the page and tell us where you are on the political compass!

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

About the same spot as the Dalai Lama :rofl:

 

[PerennialII]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

I'll just wait for the peace prize to appear on my doorstep :rofl: . Right there with the Dalai Lama & Nelson Mandela.

 

[Polly]

Hey Smurfee, that's a great test, having always wondered about my orientation myself.

Score: Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41.

I am a cross between the reverend Dalai Lama and Ghandi.

Yes Polly, well done!

One worry though, we are all so liberal our cells bearly hold together! :rofl:

 

[EL]

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

Hmm, didn't know I was that much to the left...in Sweden I quite often agree with the right side...

 

[BobG]

Economic: -2.38
Social: 1.28

There's no international leaders that fall in the lower right quadrant?

 

[Shahil]

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56

I'm further to the left than Madiba and the Dalai Lama. That's a good thing right??

 

[PerennialII]

I'm further to the left than Madiba and the Dalai Lama. That's a good thing right??

Hope so ... there are quite a lot of us here below -7 and so . We can start having chats where we read "Das Capital".

 

[Smurf]

Economic: -2.38
Social: 1.28

There's no international leaders that fall in the lower right quadrant?

err, maybe my graph reading skills are getting rough but isn't that score in the top left quadrant? You're just underneath Pope John Paul II

 

[kat]

Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

Right next to Mandela...

 

[Smurf]

I don't believe you.

 

[kat]

I don't believe you.

Lol, and I would have expected you to be up and to the left..right up there with Stalin and Mugabe...and so I say...so?

 

[Polly]

:tongue2: Cheating bad bad

 

[kat]

:tongue2: Cheating bad bad

wtf, is this aimed at me?
I'm right there with Cobb and Nader a well!

 

[selfAdjoint]

I took this about six months ago, and it's interesting that while I now remain is the lower left quadrant as before, I have moved a little toward the center horizontally. I think that's due to reading the excellent litttle book The Market System by Charles Lindblom; it made me see more constructive things in the free market than I had before (but it is by no means a right wing screed!).

For the record, my current scores are Economic, -2.00, Social Lib/Auth -3.74. I still favor legal marijuana and abortion, though I personally have never had either .

 

[wasteofo2]

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

Right near Nelson Mandella and Gandhi.

 

[motai]

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

Hmm, didn't know I was that much to the left...in Sweden I quite often agree with the right side...

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.23

I never knew I was that much to the left... and I live in the U.S.! I guess I should take it easy on the "Strongly Agree/Disagree" responses. I am way off on the chart.

 

[BobG]

err, maybe my graph reading skills are getting rough but isn't that score in the top left quadrant? You're just underneath Pope John Paul II

What makes you think there's any connection between my score and my questions? Just something to wonder about - no famous right wing libertarian leaders? Doesn't that combination work?

Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

Right next to Mandela...

I don't believe you.

Well, I have to admit, I'm surprised, as well. You're directly opposite George Bush. How did you ever wind up supporting him?

For that matter, how did John Kerry wind up in the top right quadrant? I'm not even sure Kerry's views were closer to mine than Bush's. I supported Kerry more on my impression of the competency level of the two than anything else. I would never consider him a right wing candidate.

 

[kat]

Well, I have to admit, I'm surprised, as well. You're directly opposite George Bush. How did you ever wind up supporting him?

It seems anyone in the left lower quandrant is the opposite of Bush...and Kerry. at any rate, if I didn't feel that Kerry was such a huge threat to our country and the Iraqi people (greater then Bush) I probably would have voted Cobb. I didn't vote for Bush the first run around, BTW.

For that matter, how did John Kerry wind up in the top right quadrant? I'm not even sure Kerry's views were closer to mine than Bush's. I supported Kerry more on my impression of the competency level of the two than anything else. I would never consider him a right wing candidate.

I think the test is deeply flawed, great fun..but deeply flawed. A lot of questions I answered "agree" when that agreement would have been conditional or given with deep reservation.

 

[Kerrie]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92


This was fun!

 

[kawikdx225]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.10

Guess I'm in the middle!

 

[loseyourname]

Economic Left/Right: 6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.85

Am I the only person on the right side of the economic scale? Is this forum really that socialist?

 

[Smurf]

so·cial·ism (ssh-lzm)
n.
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

The problem with politics today is political terms are being so degraded by the media that no one knows what they mean anymore, just because someone is left-wing doesn't mean they're a socialist. I am not a socialist.

 

[Dooga Blackrazor]

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03

 

[Townsend]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.13

 

[loseyourname]

so·cial·ism (ssh-lzm)
n.
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.

That's the one. I said no to just about every government control over the economy. Apparently not too many agree.

 

[Kerrie]

That's the one. I said no to just about every government control over the economy. Apparently not too many agree.

probably due to the fact that corporate profits are the main incentive for the current war in iraq.

 

[loseyourname]

probably due to the fact that corporate profits are the main incentive for the current war in iraq.

Note that corporations don't go to war. If you didn't give the government so much power, we likely wouldn't have as many wars.

 

[PerennialII]

Economic Left/Right: 6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.85

Am I the only person on the right side of the economic scale? Is this forum really that socialist?

I would have thought this would be going seriously the other way around, biased to the right ... the fact that many Europeans get to the left in a test like this isn't that much of a surprise, but other than that an interesting result (sure this ain't too accurate or anything but nonetheless). Makes think how well does this represents the composition of the board.

 

[Kerrie]

Note that corporations don't go to war. If you didn't give the government so much power, we likely wouldn't have as many wars.

the corporations give those in power lots of incentives for voting in laws that help their profits.

anyway, maybe we can continue this in another thread? i can always have more to say regarding this topic.

 

[russ_watters]

I'm 0.50/-0.51. I'll have to look around for an older thread about this site, because I think it (me and the site) changed a little. I think last time I was a little more to the lower right.

loseyourname, I'm pretty much in the middle, but that's partly because I don't like answering "strongly agree" or "stronly disagree" because I think the questions are too vage/loaded. But yeah, the people on this site lean strongly left.

 

[russ_watters]

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

Hmm, didn't know I was that much to the left...in Sweden I quite often agree with the right side...

Lol, I think in Sweden, the right is still to the left! Sweeden's the most left-leaning country in Europe.

edit: thinking about that a little more, how do they place the axes? Is it based on the US's political leanings? The US certainly leans a little to the right of Europe. Or is it supposed to be an absolute scale?

 

[Gokul43201]

Eco : -2.38
Soc : -3.13

Closer to the center than most here. I could hardly 'strongly agree/disagree' with any of the questions. And I simply wanted to skip any question that said "always" or "never". Some questions are just poorly written...and I felt forced to answer differently from what I felt about the idea as a whole, because of the specific wording of the question.

 

[Aquamarine]

I got to the first question, "If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations." In this case, I think the interest of humanity and corporations are pretty much aligned. But the question assumes that they are strongly opposed, making the question and test impossible for me to answer.

 

[EL]

Lol, I think in Sweden, the right is still to the left!

Well, that's an overstatement.

Sweeden's the most left-leaning country in Europe.

Not sure it's the most, but certainly more left than the average.


Just to make things clear: Sweden is definitely NOT socialistic!
What makes people think we are so much to the left is that we pay pretty high taxes (especially the rich persons). Otherwise we are like most other western countries.
In particular I don't like the socialistic system in any way (how can anyone?).
I consider myself as quite liberal in that I like the free market and the individualism, although I think the government should make sure that there is a nice healthcare and education for everyone, includning the poorest, and also counteract monopolies.

Anyway I think the result is very much affected of how you interpret the questions, like Aquamarine said:

I got to the first question, "If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations." In this case, I think the interest of humanity and corporations are pretty much aligned. But the question assumes that they are strongly opposed, making the question and test impossible for me to answer.

On this I picked "Strongly agree", although I agree with Aquamarine.
And there are plenty more questions like this in the test...

 

[wasteofo2]

Note that corporations don't go to war. If you didn't give the government so much power, we likely wouldn't have as many wars.

Computers don't go to war either. If only we took power from the government and gave it to computers instead...