Political Orientation
It is time for everyone to stop thinking of right and left wing politics as two dimensional. You cannot put democratic socialism such as that endorsed by modern left wing politics in the same category as totalitarian communism such as was found in Stalin’s Russia. Similarly, you can’t put mainstream right wing politics of today in the same category as right wing politics of Hitler’s Germany. Political viewpoints can be best described using The Political Compass, as displayed below, which is more adequate as it uses four dimensions instead of two.
Below is a diagram representing the political viewpoints of famous figures in history in relation to the compass
My personal orientation is displayed below, and I'm proud to say that according to this test I'm even more liberal, freedom loving and humanitarian than Gandhi himself, although I do admit that had I been raised in the same time and place as him I would probably have been a lesser liberal than him.
You can evaluate your own viewpoint using the same test that I did. It’s important to know your own viewpoint. Everyone, no matter how ignorant they are of political arguments has a viewpoint. Take the test.
2 comments:
Came out as a very minute amount less left and a little bit more libertarian than yourself, still it's nice to see your keeping your blog going.
Once again manyverse I have to applaud you. We sit in a very similar place on the compass. I posted my last comment on the piece on modern anger. I believe this is what the net is for. There is no change without words and the weight of the people behind them. We are drowning in a sea of filth. We should raise our heads and catch our breath....
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