http://www.resonant.org/20050426-political-compass Comments for "The Political Compass" en http://www.resonant.org/20050426-political-compass <p>There is a <a href="http://www.politicalcompass.org/">website</a> with a self-test available to plot your political position not just in terms of "left" or "right", but on a two-dimensional graph putting "economic left/collectivism" to "economic right/libertarianism" on the x-axis and "libertarian/anarchism" to "authoritarian/fascism" on the y-axis.</p> <p>I come out solidly collectivist and somewhat on the anarchist side, according to their test (-6.75,-4.36), sitting in roughly the same spot that they place Ghandi. In the sense that I don't trust large, powerful groups, be they governments or corporations, to look out for the interests of individuals, I suppose that's about right. I'm not yet convinced that this is really a useful way of looking at the political spectrum, however.</p> <p><a href="http://www.resonant.org/20050426-political-compass">read more</a></p> http://www.resonant.org/20050426-political-compass#comments Amused Personal Log Oddities Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:03:23 -0400 Zed 725 at http://www.resonant.org