Ready to see where you stand? Liberal, Anarchist, Left-leaning

[mcscajun]

Libertarian?

Even if you've taken the Political Compass test before, take it again; you may be surprised at where you've moved.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

I'll post mine first.

I don't self-describe as a Left-Libertarian, 'cause so many believe we don't exist, but that "political compass" test that came out a couple of years ago plotted me there.


My scores: Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

I'm somewhere to the Left of, but more libertarian than, Gandhi.

"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)."
http://www.politicalcompass.org /

This was inspired by another thread here at GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4971876#4972078

Post results here at this thread, though. :)

[NMDemDist2]

1. i'm a leftist Libertarian too

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90

which puts me in the middle of the lower left quadrant

[yardwork]

2. I've gotten worse! I used to be on Gandhi's spot - now I'm way left

I'm almost falling off the left libertarian chart. And I thought I was being moderate in my responses!

[intheflow]

85. You've gotten better, not worse.

You're right about where I hsve always been. :hi:

[Mr_Spock]

3. I took that before - I'm Gandhi

and that's cool with me.

[LisaL]

11. I am close to Gandhi as well.

LOL.

[Mr_Spock]

42. You must be ok then

:pals:

lol

[MuseRider]

4. Have not moved really

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.00

[RoyGBiv]

5. Scores ...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.87

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. I'm at

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

Right near Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.

;) ;)

Added on Edit: This was really interesting, though. Thanks for posting it. :D :D

[masshole]

7. hmmm... I'm more left than before lol

Las time I took this test I was a bit more center.

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. South and west of Gandhi

[LSK]

68. Just a little below Ghandi

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. I'm still a "Left Libertarian" (aka Anarchist).

I didn't bother to take the test this time. The results remain the same.

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.” - Gandhi

[mcg]

10. Left-Libertarian

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

[Walt Starr]

12. Leftist Libertarian

Moreso than Ghandi:

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

[Greyhound]

13. I've become even more libertarian left

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

[hopeisaplace]

14. I'm buddy buddy with

The Dali Lama

[beyurslf]

15. Here is mine

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

[tlsmith1963]

16. Also Left-Libertarian

I figured that was where I would end up.

Tammy

[boston bean]

17. libertarian left for me.

[Selatius]

18. My ideas make me a LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST

This should give you a brief overview of the ideas knocking around in my head:

http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/libsoc.html

[toddaa]

47. Libertarian socialists - a sizable constituency on DU

As dirty a word as libertarian is in these parts, there sure are a lot of us hanging out on DU.

[mcscajun]

49. That's 'cause we are the LEFT-Libertarians. Not those cuckoo

RIGHT-Libertarians.

:)

[toddaa]

54. They stole the word

Anybody that infatuated with capitalism shouldn't be allowed to use the word. There's nothing libertarian about wage slavery.

[mcscajun]

55. I agree...we need to revoke it from Thomas Friedman.

He's all alone out there, anyway. :)

[formernaderite]

66. I'm a small "l" libertarian...

I worry about people calling themselves libertarian socialists...there are a bunch of neo nazi's using that term to describe themselves. They tried to join up with a Green party group I was involved with a few years back.

[mcscajun]

89. I'm with you on the Small "l" -- AND on not calling myself a

socialist.

Too many bad associations in people's minds on that one.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. I'm the third point of a right triangle

where the line from Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lama forms the hypotenuse.

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

Someone may now correct my geometry. :D

[MazeRat7]

20. I scored close to the Dalai Lama and Gandhi...

which is about as close as I will ever get to being in their same league. Oh well, nice to know my "principals" are at least on target..*sigh.


MZr7

[Selatius]

22. Careful, if you got into their league, you might end up dead

Jesus and Gandhi and Dr. King are some of the ones I admire the most. All ended up dead because they "got too far," and people who profit off the existing order don't like that, and they don't like you. (Or me for that matter)

[MazeRat7]

50. Well, any day is a good day to die I suppose. The real question is...

if it is tomorrow, have I done all I can up to today. Sadly, the answer is no... so I had better get busy eh ?

MZr7

[marmar]

21. I'm with Gandhi too

a real leftwing moonbat!!!

[skipos]

23. What?!? It has me next to Bush?!?

Just kidding. I am in Ghandi territory.

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

[phusion]

24. I'm at Gandhi, too...

about -9, -9

[astonamous]

25. Left/Libertarian .... Living in a red state .... Oye

Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

Born and raised in Utah! No wonders I always felt out of place.

[mcscajun]

26. Nice to see so many in the same area...

...Keep having fun with this, y'all. :)

[katsy]

27. Very Interesting...

What's way left of Ghandi???

My political compass

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26

[Just Me]

28. Presently, I am a member of humanity, period.

Political compass no longer matters to me.

[AnnieBW]

29. Lefty Libertarian, too

Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

[Imalittleteapot]

30. Haven't changed since last time I took this.

Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

[JerseygirlCT]

31. I'm farther to the left, and more of a libertarian

than Gandhi...

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

[mourningdove92]

32. No change for me. I'm still holding hands with

Ghandi.

[KerryOn]

33. Eheee... gads....

My scores:
Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74

I'm happy with the Economic, but the social libertarian scares me a little. Way to close to the center!

How accurate is this test?

[Selatius]

40. Nothing wrong with being a moderate

You sound exactly like my best friend. I am, in comparison, more socialist than he is, and I am also more libertarian than he is.

Think of it this way: On one extreme, you have those who believe the state is more important than the individual and that it should make decisions for the people. (The authoritarians) On the opposite extreme, you have those who believe in the supreme worth of the individual in making decisions that affect his or her life. (The libertarians) You are in the middle, a moderate on social issues, on the Libertarian/Authoritarian scale, but your economic views on the Socialist/Capitalist scale make you a solid social democrat like those seen in Europe.

[mcscajun]

43. As accurate as your answers, and the built-in bias make it.

I wouldn't worry all that much.

Take it again a week from now and see if your scores change. :)

[highplainsdem]

34. Another Left-Libertarian here.

Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

No further left than Gandhi, but more libertarian.

[sweetheart]

35. antichrist leaning

sorta like gandhi.

[yodermon]

36. hmm.. so where do the neocons sit?

I say the very very upper right tippy top corner.
??

[Just Me]

37. Between Hitler and Stalin. n/t

[mcscajun]

45. Glad you asked that question... :) Here's the Detailed International Chart

Notice where chimpy sits?

[Selatius]

51. There's so few libertarian leftists, and where the hell is Chavez!?

I wonder why there are so few leaders who are libertarian leftist. Gee, could it be they have a nasty habit of being assassinated often?

[mcscajun]

53. The graphics on this site haven't been updated in quite some time.

...so it's not surprising Chavez isn't on there.

Edit: Correction -- they Have been updated. I see the new Pope is on there already.

Hmmmm...

[wysi]

38. As I mentioned in the other thread:

I'm:

Economic left/right -6.13
Social libertarian/authoritarian - 6.77

Most defintely a left-libertarian. I'm not surprised however...

[NoBushSpokenHere]

39. SW of GreenPartyVoter and Dalai Lama n/t

[degreesofgray]

41. lefty anarchist

Economic Left -7.63
Social Libertarian -8.05

I'll live in the hills and read Camus.

[Az]

44. Woohoo

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

Way down there in the lower left. :woohoo:

[mcscajun]

46. Wowee, you're crazier than *I* am.

And that's Sayin' somethin'.

:rofl:

[mcscajun]

48. Wanna see where * (Spongehead Dumbass) lives on the chart?

[incapsulated]

52. About the same as last time, lower lefty libertarian

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -7.25

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

56. I stand for what is right and good.

Fuck the political compass!*









*Damn, I cut myself on the damn thing!

[mcscajun]

57. See, you must be careful with sharp objects.

Now put down the scissors, sit down at your desk, and take the test like a good boy. or girl. Or squid. Whatever. :)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

58. Bottom left.

Where all is right and all is good. :)

[distantearlywarning]

59. Square in the middle of leftist Libertarian.

Economic left/right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

The nearest person to me is Gandhi, but I'm somewhat more Libertarian than he is.

I think I used to be more in the middle on the left/right economic axis, but am getting more left, I guess. That's probably due to my time here on DU - you all are influencing me. :-)

On Edit: I'm just about right on top of the Dalai Lama. I guess that's good company to be in. And I'm just about as far away from Bush as it's possible to be on this scale.

[Maestro]

60. The results

say that I am near Ghandi.

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62

[ncrainbowgrrl]

61. oh wow- I've gone further to the left than I had thought!

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26

[Jamison]

62. I'm near Stalin...should I be worried?

Not too close, but in the same quadrant at least. :scared:

[incapsulated]

63. I don't know but...

I'm putting you on ignore!

Joke. ;)

It's just a quiz, I wouldn't take it too seriously.

*backs slowly away...*

[mcscajun]

64. In the same quadrant's one thing...if You start telling US which

quadrant to stand in, and what song to sing while we do it, THEN I'll worry.

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

65. About where I was before...

political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

Hanging out with the Dalai Lama




















Right
Libertarian

[BrewerJohn]

67. Camped out in the third quadrant

with the rest of ya:

Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Don't remember what it was the last time, but it was probably close.

[mvd]

69. My results

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

[Gregorian]

70. Hanging with the Dalai Lama.

Very interesting lessons to be learned from that website.

Fascism is a social entity.

[readmoreoften]

71. left liberal as hell n/t

[davekriss]

72. O scary I've drifted rightward!

My scores: Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

The last time I took it I was -9.xx, -9.xx

I must've succumbed to Bush's stellar handling of Katrina.

Ah, at least I'm still in the company of Noam Chomsky, Nelson Mandela, and Mohandes Ghandi. Not a bad bunch!

But I'm very glad to see that Gee Dubya and I are nearly polat opposites!

[DaBruno]

73. Interesting.

Economic Left/Right: -1.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21

[sakabatou]

74. Mine

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95

Leftist libertarian...

[lildreamer316]

75. Left Libertarian too.

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82

Hmmmm.

[BeTheChange]

76. I love this test.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62

Im a tad bit more libertarian then Ghandi and Mandela, less then the Dali Lama.. and about as left as Mandela.

[moc]

77. Libertarian left!

:-)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

78. Left-Libertarian, big time...

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05

[alfredo]

79. My scores are

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

Left of Ghandi, much more Libertarian than him.

[Lorien]

80. Lol! I landed exactly where they place Gandhi

I grew up reading his writings, so I guess that makes sense. :-)

[Roxy66]

81. I'm Gandhi too....

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

[IN-dem]

82. My results

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21

More in the line with Gandhi

[mcscajun]

83. Kickin' for the Wednesday cube-rats.

:)

:kick:

[Skidmore]

84. Also a left libertarian.

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82

This is a good exercise.

If there were a party to reflect this school of political thought, what would it be called? I'm going to start a thread to ask this.

[Telly Savalas]

86. To repeat from another thread....

These little compasses are recruitment tools for the Libertarian Party. When I first started seeing those about 15 years ago or so, it was the Libertarian Party pushing them. The presence of the Ayn Randian buzzword "collectivism" on the charts should also be a big red flag alerting us to the fact that the makers of the compass are up to no good. You answer some questions they wrote, and by giving reasonable responses you magically meet their definition of a libertarian.

The word Libertarian has been stretched so much that it is virtually meaningless. When somebody declares "I am a libertarian", typically all they mean is "I am against excessive government intervention." This is a pretty empty statement though. Nobody is for excessive government intervention. Rather we all just have different ideas on what constitutes excessive intervention.

[mcscajun]

88. This one isn't pushing Ayn Rand at all

In fact, for each of the quadrants, they've provided a reading list of authors in that vein.

Here's the list for the Left-Libertarians:
* Peter Scowen
* Benjamin Barber
* Howard Zinn
* Thomas Frank
* George Monbiot
* Emma Goldman
* Al Franken
* Ivan Illich
* Nils Christie
* Pierre Bourdieu
* Joseph Stiglitz
* Naomi Tutu
* William Blum
* Michael Moore
* George Orwell
* Naomi Klein
* Eric Schlosser
* Thomas Paine
* Noam Chomsky
* Ralph Nader
* Greg Palast
* Peter Kropotkin
* Tariq Ali
* J. K. Galbraith

Ayn Rand, P.J. O'Rourke, and Milton Friedman are among those on the reading list for the Libertarian Right.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

87. My results...left libertarian :)

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62