Economic Left/Right: -8.12

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56







It would appear I'm closer to Ghandi then I thought. Makes sense since I dislike competition and overly-agressive behaviour. But it's funny since I was in the military, and love the 'structure' of it. (not what it does.)

adder wrote:
Dalai Lama v2.0

Nope,I am no leader.Never was.Never will be.

Mtwo wrote:
I am somewhere between Alexis Tsipras and Dalai Lama,I threw a laugh when I saw the results.

Dalai Lama v2.0

I am somewhere between Alexis Tsipras and Dalai Lama,I threw a laugh when I saw the results.

Wow, you must be the one that is most inside the green bottom-left corner



As for your very nice and good readable explanation, this is actually borderline forum rules violation.

as we are not allowed to discuss politics

Your point however makes great sense as I can understand that leaders tend to become more "extreme"

because they want to make their "visions" come true.



And perhaps it is true that the media gives us the impression that we are less left than we actually are..

Anyway; thanks for your input on this!

Revolution!



Studying politics here, one of those green, leftwing extremely critical folks. Active in a Social Democrat party as well, though I frequently let them know they are far too right wing and conservative, and tend to hand them academic literature to see why and how they should change - re-discover utopianism, believe that it actually is possible to change things for the better, even if you never get exactly what you want.



Noticed that Adder found it strange that most folks are inside the Green square. Actually it isn't. Are two explanations for this, either of which might explain the discrepancy:



1. We are on a forum, on the internet, for a certain type of game. For this type of game, I am surprised that there are people leaning towards the authoritarian side at all. The internet tends to gather people of similar opinions. There are exceptions, of course.

2. In real life, most people are more left wing and less authoritarian than those governing society. Not sure how far into politics I'm allowed to go under the forum rules, but there are again a couple of general explanations for this:

2.1 The Iron Law of Oligarchy, if you are a leader - a leader of any kind, even myself - you tend to become more elitist. Your time is more valuable than the time of others'. You have a more expensive lifestyle. You gain from the system as it is. You lose contact with "normal" people. You get lobbied, you might need a personal doctor and to jump queues... you are more important than other people. And there you have the basis for hierarchies (authoritarianism) and gaining from capitalism (to the right, most societies currently are far into the blue square). Notice how in that test even "leftist" leaders such as Ed Milliband of the UK are far into the blue square (you won't find his voters there), while for instance the leader of the Greek Syriza party, Alexis Tsipras, is less left wing and anti-authority than most of us. He is the guy the EU was afraid of for being a radical politician. Which he certainly is compared to where the others are, but perhaps not compared to where the population is? I don't know, just guessing there, difficult to say unless we have a sizeable random sample of people from different countries taking this test.

2.2 Most surveys show that people think their society has a more equal distribution of resources than it does, and that most people would like a more equal distribution than they think society has as well as than what it actually has. Not arguing whether this is right or wrong politically (just so we won't end in a discussion of politics), this is what surveys show. From this one could reason that most people are more to the left than they would think they are.- In general there is consensus within political science (at least the European, I find US political science to often be too dry and boring to read), that our perception of reality isn't governed by what is real but what we think is real. At the moment our schools, media and politicians are following the discourse of growth capitalism - which is logical, any system wishes to reproduce itself, no big conspiracy here - so we are being socialised into accepting the right-wing authoritarian side of the political game, while questioning the left - which makes it easier for politicians to get away with right wing plans than left wing plans.



Could argue more convincingly, but going into global political economy, distribution of skills, global class divisions, false consciousness and so on and on would probably be a clear violation of the rule against discussing politics - which is a silly rule, if you ask me. No problem in discussing politics. The problem arises when you start shouting your point of view, trying to convince others, rather than listening to arguments and talking to each other. Difficult for people to learn this difference if we aren't allowed to discuss.

Haha, I don't know much about political theory, but my answers were pragmatic and supportive of self-regulation (on both an economic and individual level).

You must be the first one inside the purple square, congratulations!

Economic Left/Right: 5.38

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.41





Woo! I buck the trend. Some of those questions were hard. Most of the social questions to me were 'Well it depends on the situation', which wasn't a option. So all in all, I'm happy with my mostly center placement for social issuse. And I agree with my placement on economic issues as well.



Yeah I'm not as close to my favoured political party as the graph says I should be. But then, we all have our own unique view on things.

Despite what the graph may show, I actually consider myself far more of a Reactionary than a left-wing authoritarian. It's just that I distrust multi-national corporations just as much as I distrust modern unions.

yeah, ofcourse you can have other outcomes then green, but I was wondering:

maybe the question are asked in a way that most will answer in a more Left/Libertarian way?

or is my brain searching for stuff that isn't there? (this is highly plausible )

Since Raptor's shown that other solutions ARE possible, I doubt it.

LoL, almost all are inside the green square, maybe their's something wrong with the test?

MammothIL wrote:
Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -5.25

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21





Guess I can be defined as a Socialist / Confederation "Don't tread on me" kind of a guy :-) No wonder that I liked the Venus Project's ideas.

Nice test, all in all!

Same results as the guy I have quoted. Huh. I figured I'd be a little more neutral towards left and right, with a slight right bias. Whatever. Interesting nonetheless.

This seems about right.



EDIT: Ive seen this questionnaire before on the Total War Center forums, and most of them were also Leftist Libertarians. Strange.

Another Green Sqare man

Just completed the test and I thought I would be more center right. Apparently me and Ghandi have a lot in common!

Join the Club

"You are a social democratic Cosmopolitan. 13 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 45 percent are more extremist than you."



I will admit not to knowing what "social democratic Cosmopolitan"