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The Political Spectrum Left-Right Paradigm
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[quote:monkeydog:MV8xNTQ2NDkyXzI1NTY0MzYzXzZGQTcwNTdD] This is my score: Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -6.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92 A moderate, left wing libertarian. According to the chart, my "dot" is in about the same place as Ghandi's. I will take that as good company! [quote:Anonymous Coward 1437555] The video makes the common era of seeing political differences as a one dimensional phenomena, that is consisting of only a contium from "left" to "right". There are in fact at least two different dimensions in measuring political position. The difference between left and right is largely economic. On the far right are those who believe that individual property rights trump all other considerations in society and on the far left are those who believe that property should be owned in common. The other axis is between authoritarianism and anarchy. On one side you have a belife that the state should have a large amount of control over the individual and on the other side is a belief that the state should have little or no control over the individual. Thus, the opposite of facism (far right economic beliefs, far into the authoritarian end of the scale) is not communism but liberal socialism (far left economic beliefs and a rejection of authoritarian government). The opposite of communism would be what we think of today as the "neo-liberal" viewpoint, more often referred to as a the "neocon" movement, in other words far right economic beliefs combined with a rejection of authoritarian government. But what's interesting to me is that most people who claim to be "libertarian" as well as many who self-identify as "liberals" tend to really be much more authoritarian than they claim to be. Both seem to want much more government control than they will admit, they just want that control to be over OTHER PEOPLE, not themselves. Here's an interesting "test" of where you fall on the political compass. http://politicalcompass.org/index [/quote] [/quote]
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I have layed this out a number of times lately and it seems that this subject is severely missunderstood.
Here's a video that 'splaines it all.
Watch....please....very much worth the time.
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