European Political Ideologies. Test yourself!
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
May 20, 2024, 08:16:20 AM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Individual Politics (Moderator: The Dowager Mod)
  European Political Ideologies. Test yourself!
« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7
Author Topic: European Political Ideologies. Test yourself!  (Read 23305 times)
WMS
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 6,557


Political Matrix
E: -3.48, S: -1.22

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2004, 12:33:42 AM »

Some of those lower ranks are indeed pretty odd...I'd like to see that test's methodology.

Same here. I'd at least like to have the percentage match to each ideology...
Logged
12th Doctor
supersoulty
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 20,584
Ukraine


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #51 on: May 18, 2004, 12:57:37 AM »

Some of those lower ranks are indeed pretty odd...I'd like to see that test's methodology.

Same here. I'd at least like to have the percentage match to each ideology...

It's probably very low for any ideology lower than 3 on your list.  But that depends on the individual as well.  If a person it cought between several then the may not have a great match or may have only one.  I would say that anything under #3 for the average test taker is probably less than a 30% match.  Maybe 40%.
Logged
bergie72
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 380
Germany


Political Matrix
E: 4.77, S: -3.48

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #52 on: May 24, 2004, 09:50:21 PM »

#1 You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.  

Yeah, pretty accurate for me, I guess.   :-)

2  Market liberal
3  Anarcho-capitalist
4  Third Way
5  Christian Democrat
6  social liberal
7  fascist
8  anarcho-communist
9  classical socialist
10  social democrat
11  green
12  communist
Logged
bullmoose88
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 14,515


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #53 on: May 25, 2004, 12:21:26 AM »

#1 You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.  

2 You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.
 

#3 You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).
 

#4 You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.
 

#5 You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.  

#6 You are an ecologist or green.
7) Third Way--Normally this is in the top 3.

#8 You are a Christian democrat

#9 You are an anarcho-communist

#10 You are a classical socialist

#11 You are a communist.

#12 You are a fascist.


Now only if there were tests to say what party you'd belong to if you lived in another country
Logged
??????????
StatesRights
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 31,126
Political Matrix
E: 7.61, S: 0.00

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #54 on: May 25, 2004, 12:22:41 AM »

Go to www.selectsmart.com go to politics and they have a party selector.
Logged
ilikeverin
Atlas Politician
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 16,409
Timor-Leste


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #55 on: May 25, 2004, 11:37:56 AM »

#1 You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.  

R... r... r... republican avatar and a social liberal?

Shocked

You're cool Cool
Logged
Gustaf
Moderators
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 29,781


Political Matrix
E: 0.39, S: -0.70

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #56 on: May 25, 2004, 11:45:35 AM »


No Swedish party selector. Sad

I did the Bush v Gore 2000 test. http://www.selectsmart.com/BUSHGORE/

My ideal candidate: 100%

Bush: 56%

Gore 38%

Seems my support of Bush in 2000 was well founded. Smiley
Logged
Frodo
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 24,647
United States


WWW Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #57 on: February 10, 2005, 06:02:46 AM »
« Edited: February 10, 2005, 06:04:42 AM by Proud Liberal »

i thought i'd join the bandwagon here:

#1   You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#2   You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.

#3   You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.

#4   You are a classical socialist, believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector, covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but probably also the 'commanding heights' of industry (e.g. iron and steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in general, but there is considerable variation within this political group.

#5   You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income - and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se. You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern "eurocommunists" tend to take a liberal line.

#6   You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.

#7   You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.

#8   You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

#9   You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#10   You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.

#11   You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).

#12   You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.
Logged
minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,206
India


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #58 on: February 10, 2005, 06:21:02 AM »

I've redone the test, and I had exactly one place change after more than half a year.
But that was between first and second place.
Logged
nclib
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 10,302
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #59 on: February 10, 2005, 04:41:50 PM »

#1 You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#2 You are a social liberal
#3 You are a social democrat
#4 You are a classical socialist
#5 You are a communist
#6 You are an anarcho-communist
#7 You are a market liberal
#8 You adhere to the Third Way
#9 You are an anarcho-capitalist
#10 You are a Christian democrat
#11 You are a libertarian conservative
#12 You are a fascist
Logged
Jake
dubya2004
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 18,621
Cuba


Political Matrix
E: -0.90, S: -0.35

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #60 on: February 10, 2005, 07:39:17 PM »

#1 You are a Christian democrat
 
#2 You are a libertarian conservative
 
#3 You are a fascist.

#4 You are an anarcho-capitalist.
 
#5 You adhere to the Third Way
 
#6 You are a market liberal
 
#7 You are an anarcho-communist

#8 You are a classical socialist

#9 You are a communist.
 
#10 You are a social democrat.
 
#11 You are a social liberal.

#12 You are an ecologist or green.

I'd say that is pretty close.  I think I'd tend to lean more towards a mix of 2 & 3 if I lived in Europe mainly because of the radical muslim immigrant problem and the socialist economic policies.
Logged
Democratic Hawk
LucysBeau
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 14,703
United Kingdom


Political Matrix
E: -2.58, S: 2.43

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #61 on: February 11, 2005, 12:36:50 PM »

Here goes:

#1 Third Way
#2 Classical socialist
#3 Christian Democrat
#4 Anarcho-communist
#5 Ecologist/Green
#6 Libertarian Conservative
#7 Social Democrat
#8 Social Liberal
#9 Communist
#10 Fascist
#11 Market Liberal
#12 Anarcho-capitalist

This as far as I'm concerned confirms one thing: my disdain for neo-liberal economics! I'm surprised that Libertarian Conservative comes in that high with me (it should be down there at about 10) and Social Democrat comes in that low (should be top five). As for anarcho-communism coming in at #4, I'm not even going to try and fathom that one!

The #1 Third Way is probably about right for me

Dave
Logged
Gabu
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 28,386
Canada


Political Matrix
E: -4.32, S: -6.52

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #62 on: February 11, 2005, 02:01:35 PM »

I can't remember if I've taken this before, but here are my results as of today:

#1 Social liberal

Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.

#2 Ecologist or green
#3 Libertarian conservative (??)
#4 Market liberal
#5 Social democrat
#6 Christian democrat
#7 Third Way
#8 Anarcho-capitalist
#9 Anarcho-communist
#10 Classical socialist
#11 Communist
#12 Fascist
Logged
Middle-aged Europe
Old Europe
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 17,254
Ukraine


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #63 on: February 11, 2005, 02:18:43 PM »

No major changes compared to the last time I took the test. I´m still a social liberal.
Logged
Tetro Kornbluth
Gully Foyle
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 12,853
Ireland, Republic of


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #64 on: January 12, 2007, 06:42:07 PM »

Top.

1. Social Liberal
2. Anarcho-Capitalist
3. Market Liberal
4. Social Democrat
5. Anarcho-Communist
..
..
10. Communist
11. Christian Democrat
12. Fascist (yay!)
Logged
Undisguised Sockpuppet
Straha
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 9,787
Uruguay


Political Matrix
E: 6.52, S: 2.00

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #65 on: January 12, 2007, 07:10:49 PM »

#1   You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

#2   You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.

#3   You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#4   You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income - and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se. You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern "eurocommunists" tend to take a liberal line.

#5   You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#6   You are a classical socialist, believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector, covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but probably also the 'commanding heights' of industry (e.g. iron and steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in general, but there is considerable variation within this political group.

#7   You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.
   
#8   You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.

#9   You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.

#10   You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.
   

#11   You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.

#12   You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).
Logged
ilikeverin
Atlas Politician
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 16,409
Timor-Leste


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #66 on: January 12, 2007, 08:56:03 PM »

#1: You are a social liberal.  Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state.  As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.
#2: classical socialist
#3: social democrat
#4: ecologist or green
#5: communist
#6: Third Way
#7: market liberal
#8: anarcho-communist
#9: anarcho-capitalist
#10: Christian democrat
#11: libertarian conservative
#12: fascist

Hmm, let's see how much I changed...

#1   You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.  (+2)
#2 social liberal (-1)
#3 ecologist or green (+1)
#4 classical socialist (-2)
#5 Third Way (+1)
#6 communist (-1)
#7 Christian democrat (+3)
#8 anarcho-communist (+/- 0)
#9 libertarian conservative (+2)
#10 market liberal (-3)
#11 fascist (+1)
#12 anarcho-capitalist (-3)

Wow, that's not much at all.
Logged
Frodo
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 24,647
United States


WWW Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #67 on: January 12, 2007, 09:55:16 PM »

The changes between then and now are breath-taking:

i thought i'd join the bandwagon here:

#1   You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#2   You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.

#3   You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.

#4   You are a classical socialist, believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector, covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but probably also the 'commanding heights' of industry (e.g. iron and steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in general, but there is considerable variation within this political group.

#5   You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income - and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se. You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern "eurocommunists" tend to take a liberal line.

#6   You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.

#7   You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.

#8   You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

#9   You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#10   You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.

#11   You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).

#12   You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.

#1   You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.

#2   You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.

#3   You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.

#4   You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).

#5   You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#6   You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.

#7   You are a social democrat.

#8   You are an ecologist or green.

#9   You are a fascist.

#10   You are a classical socialist

#11   You are an anarcho-communist

#12   You are a communist
Logged
Colin
ColinW
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 11,684
Papua New Guinea


Political Matrix
E: 3.87, S: -6.09

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #68 on: January 12, 2007, 10:00:18 PM »

#1 You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.
 
#2 You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.
 
#3 You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it -"that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).
 
#4 You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.
 
#5 You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.
 
#6 You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#7 You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.
 
#8 You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#9 You are a classical socialist, believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector, covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but probably also the 'commanding heights' of industry (e.g. iron and steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in general, but there is considerable variation within this political group.
 
#10 You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income - and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se. You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern "eurocommunists" tend to take a liberal line.
 
#11 You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

#12 You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.
Logged
© tweed
Miamiu1027
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 36,562
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #69 on: January 12, 2007, 10:18:25 PM »

1. Social Liberal
2. Third Way
3. Social Democrat
4. Market Liberal
5. Christian Democrat
6. Ecologist
7. Libertarian Conservative
8. Classical Socialist
9. Anarcho-Capitalist
10. Communist
11. Fascist
12. Anarcho-Communist

32 months later

1. Communist
2. Classical Socialist
3. Anarcho-Communist
4. Ecologist/Green
5. Social Democrat
6. Social Liberal
7. Fascist
8. Third Way
9. Market Liberal
10. Anarcho-Capitalist
11. Libertarian Conservative
12. Christian Democrat
Logged
○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└
jfern
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 53,821


Political Matrix
E: -7.38, S: -8.36

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #70 on: January 12, 2007, 11:20:16 PM »

#1   You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#2 Social liberal
#3 Social Democrat
#4 Anarch-communist
#5 Classical socialist
#6 Communist
#7 Christian Democrat
#8 Third way
#9 Libertarian conservative
#10 Fascist
#11 Market liberal
#12 Anarcho-capitalist
Logged
Padfoot
padfoot714
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 4,531
United States


Political Matrix
E: -2.58, S: -6.96

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #71 on: January 13, 2007, 03:19:25 AM »
« Edited: January 13, 2007, 03:22:36 AM by padfoot714 »

#1   You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.
#2 social democrat
#3 anarcho-capitalist
#4 ecologist or green
#5 market liberal
#6 Third Way
#7 anarcho-communist
#8 libertarian conservative
#9 classical socialist
#10 Christian democrat
#11 communist (yahoo!)
#12 fascist (double yahoo!)
Logged
Middle-aged Europe
Old Europe
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 17,254
Ukraine


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #72 on: January 13, 2007, 06:24:13 AM »

1 social liberal
2 ecologist / green
3 social democrat
4 classical socialist
5 Third Way
6 communist
7 libertarian conservative
8 anarcho-communist
9 market liberal
10 anarcho-capitalist
11 Christian democrat
12 fascist

1 social liberal
2 social democrat
3 Third Way
4 ecologist / green
5 classical socialist
6 Christian democrat
7 communist
8 anarcho-capitalist
9 anarcho-communist
10 libertarian conservative
11 market liberal
12 fascist

 
Logged
merseysider
militant centrist
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 524


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #73 on: January 13, 2007, 07:20:51 AM »

1 third way
2 social democrat
3 social liberal
4 christian democrat (one nation conservative)
5 ecologist
6 classical socialist
7 libertarian conservative
8 fascist
9 market liberal
10 communist
11 anarcho capitalist
12 anarcho communist
Logged
minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,206
India


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #74 on: January 13, 2007, 10:23:34 AM »

Green
Social Liberal
Classical Socialist
Social Democrat
Anarcho-Communist
Communist
Third Way
Market Liberal
Anarcho-Capitalist
Christian Democrat
Libertarian-Conservative
Fascist

I feel at home with that. Maybe the Anarcho-Communist thing should be a spot further up, but otherwise it's what I hoped to get.
#1 You are an ecologist or green.
#2 You are a social liberal.
#3 You are a classical socialist
#4 You are a social democrat.
#5 You are an anarcho-communist
#6 You are a communist.
#7 You adhere to the Third Way.
#8 You are a market liberal.
#9 You are an anarcho-capitalist.
#10 You are a Christian democrat
#11 You are a fascist.
#12 You are a libertarian conservative.

Interesting changes there... Tongue
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7  
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.074 seconds with 9 queries.