Political Compass check-in

[GreenPartyVoter]

"The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left' , established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ?

On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook."


Take the test (with a grain of salt, of course)
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/questionnaire.pl?page=1





Me, I'm Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.41

[The Doctor.]

1. Very neat... I'm;

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.08

{on edit} - so you're Ghandi, huh?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Apparently. *g* If you want to try a different sort of test

use the second one in this list, but be sure to remember to uncheck the boxes.

http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/libvsconserv.htm#select