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[yendi]

In interesting meme -- http://www.politicalcompass.org/

It's a medium-length quiz designed to test your political range on a four-way (instead of the traditional two-way) graph, taking into account the fact that, for example, Stalin and Ghandi were both economic liberals, but were nothing like each other. I wasn't too surprised at where I ended up:

Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.36

Basically, this places me solidly in the Libertarian Left column (kept in check by my utter disdain for corporate "rights").

When I went to the "suggested reading" list for my quadrant, I wasn't surprised to find that I'd read the first three (No Logo, Fast Food Nation, and Thomas Paine), and have looked at most of the rest at times.

Comments

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I scored:

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.36


Nut I think based on what we've already exchanged, we knew I'm more of a moderate than you are. Any test like that is flawed by simplistic questions. I felt it needed more questions.

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.74

Some of those questions were worded very oddly.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

yes, I had a hard time with just "agree/disagree" with the way they were worded.

Are the jewish peopel responsible for their opression, no, but they did help make the current situation isreal is tangled up in worse.

Interesting

[melintur.livejournal.com]

I've taken this test a few times, but I never can remember my results.
They are:

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.05

It is about what I expected.

[technomom]

No real surprises for me.

Economic Left/Right: 3.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.31

Unsurprisingly, my reading list included P.J. O'Rourke, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and F.A. Hayek. I've read some of their stuff, although not all the books suggested. I don't think I've read anything by Grahame Thompson before, though.

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Very interesting....I expected to come out (more strongly than I did) on the Libertarian side, but I *didn't* expect to come out slightly left on economics! I think of myself as a fiscal conservative. I'm not sure there were enough (or the right sort of) questions about areas where I have really strong opinions.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.26

I'm still abstaining from response to yendi's earlier entry about the last election, because I see no reason to lose friends over it. I believe that people with fundamentally different political views can and should be friends. I'm interested in politics, but I refuse to argue about them any more.

[tikimama.livejournal.com]

I'm right of Gandhi! Yay!

Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.77

No surprise there. I did struggle over the "if those that are able to work do not, they should not expect to eat" questions.

[melintur.livejournal.com]

tell me about it -- define "able" to work. I don't think my definition is going to match someone who is Authoritarian.

-=C

I think those who are able to work do already work. Those that don't arent able. (must be why I got -8 on authoritarian...)

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.85

This puts me right next to Gandhi. I am not a political person, I am bored stiff when anyone discusses politics. Yet I found as I was taking the test that I had very definite opinions. Strange.