take this short test to find out where your Political Compass lies, & post your results, if you want

[stockholmer]

The test:

http://politicalcompass.org/test

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My results: (pretty much where I expected to fall, in the left-libertarian, anarcho-socialist/syndicalist camp)


http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.62&soc=-9.03

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Noted left-libertarians and anarcho-socialists:

Michael Otsuka

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctymio/

Peter Vallentyne

http://klinechair.missouri.edu/Web%20Admin/Vita_Revised.htm#personal


Noam Chomsky (he has called his libertarian socialism an anarchist philosophy)

http://planetchomsky.com/

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Other links to left forms of democratic workplaces and social structuring:


"The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm" by David Ellerman

http://www.ellerman.org/Davids-Stuff/Books/demofirm.doc



"Libertarianism Without Inequality" by Michael Otsuka

http://ebookee.org/Michael-Otsuka-Libertarianism-without-Inequality_341064.html


Why Left-Libertarianism Is Not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant: A Reply to Fried

PETER VALLENTYNE,
HILLEL STEINER, AND
MICHAEL OTSUKA
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctymio/leftlibP&PA.pdf



http://newpol.org /
New Politics, published since 1986 as a semi-annual, follows in the tradition established in its first series (1961-1978) as an independent socialist forum for dialogue and debate on the left. It is committed to the advancement of the peace and anti-intervention movements. It stands in opposition to all forms of imperialism, and is uncompromising in its defense of feminism and affirmative action. In our pages there is broad coverage of labor and social movements, the international scene, as well as emphasis on cultural and intellectual history.

Above all, New Politics insists on the centrality of democracy to socialism and on the need to rely on mass movements from below for progressive social transformation.

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"Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any signs of weakness were observable in the workers' organizations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or to abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance.

Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace .

Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution."


– Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory & Practice, 1947


http://www.iwa-ait.org /

http://www.iww.org /

http://workersolidarity.org /

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More libertarian and anarcho socialists:

Cornelius Castoriadis

http://www.agorainternational.org

Antonio Negri

http://www.generation-online.org/t/translations.htm#negribm


Murray Bookchin

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/bio1.html


Arran Gare

http://en.scientificcommons.org/arran_gare

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Here's my results:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28

I'm not sure what the numbers mean...

:shrug:

[MuseRider]

2. Here are my numbers

I have taken this before and my numbers keep heading closer to the bottom left corner.

Economic left/right: -8.25

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.10

[leeroysphitz]

22. Excellent sig pic. It works wonderfully regardless of how you feel about the president. n/t

[MuseRider]

27. Yes it does! n/t

[boppers]

48. Plus one.

Great sig pic. :)

[Tx4obama]

3. I took it a week or two ago ...

I can't remember the label they gave me,
but the results showed me down in the far bottom left section,
I think that is where Gandi was listed too.

[blogslut]

4. I'm pretty much where I was the last time I took this test

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.50&soc=-6.77

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. so I guess I have the economics of Stalin and the authoritarianism of Gandhi

[Lucinda]

6. Economic Left/Right: -6.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

[AnnieBW]

54. Economic Left/Right: -8.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62

Pretty much in keeping with the majority of DU.

[deminks]

7. Economic -8.00 Social - 7.74

further lower left than previous test results.

[rollin74]

8. economic left/right -5.38

social libertarian/authoritarian -5.64

[TeamsterDem]

9. Here are mine: economic: -7.38, social libertarian/authoritarian: -5.64

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-7.38&soc=-5.64

[newfie11]

10. I wonder if most democrats fit into the lower left box. Mine below

Economic left/Right -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian =5.28

[stockholmer]

28. I suspect most on DU do, as for the party as a whole, I did the test 10 more times, plugging in

what I would characterize as centrist Democrats answers (based on hundreds of conversations dealing with the very subjects of the questions), and the end result was either very slightly left or very slightly right, 2/3rds of the time slightly authoritarian. This is the same results I came up with for a slightly right Swedish position.

Here is where I think the average slightly leftish Swede would fall:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.75&soc=-5.74


Interesting that this (the Swedish average) mirrors very closely so many on here on DU.

I am slightly more libertarian (and maybe a bit more left) than many here in my country.

[jdadd]

11. I think mine is about the same as last time....

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

[markpkessinger]

12. Economic Left/Right: -7.25; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

Here's mine:

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.25&soc=-6.77

[Control-Z]

13. Economic Left/Right: -8.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-8.62&soc=-7.59

[timtom]

14. I'm probably too far gone to be of any value to the political system

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.00&soc=-4.72

Economic Left/Right -9
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

Please don't hate me.

[CanonRay]

15. -7.12, -5.38

Can I join the professional left now? Playing second base for the white Sox is no longer an option for me.

[polly7]

16. ...

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

[GeorgeGist]

17. Poorly constructed test.

[TorchTheWitch]

40. That's what I thought n/t

[hobbit709]

18. Mine

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74

[Harmony Blue]

19. That was interesting!

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

[TBF]

20. left libertarian

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.88&soc=-7.95

[Bigmack]

21. I hate taking tests like this....

They just point out.. more clearly than ever... that there is no place in this country for me.

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05

[Selatius]

45. You'd blend in politically with the Social Democrats or maybe the Socialist parties found in Europe.

Then again, so would I. In fact, my leftward bent has become more extreme following Bush and then the Great Recession. More now than ever before, I think the US desperately needs another FDR.

[Bigmack]

56. I've moved about two large steps left...

in response to the 10 steps to the right this country has taken.

[Odin2005]

23. Economic Left/Right: -10.00, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

Yes, I'm a Left-Wing Socialist Pinko Crazy. :evilgrin:

[xiamiam]

24. -8.75,-7.08..bottom left

[loyalsister]

25. Mine is closest to Ghandi

- 6.38\ - 5.44

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. ok -- my results:

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33

[mzteris]

29. Economic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

I don't think of myself as a libertarian, though. Not sure I agree with their "label".

[War Horse]

30. I'm about the same wrt "Left" as the last time,

but more "authoritarian", apparently...

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.88&soc=-4.62

I thought it was pretty much established that this test is designed by Libertarians, though...

[NYC Liberal]

31. Economic Left/Right: -7.50, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

[Rex]

33. I'm just one line above you!

:hi:

[Rex]

32. Just as I expected.

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.50&soc=-4.41

I'm close to Gandhi! YES! :)

[Warren DeMontague]

34. left libertarian, usually consistent around -7 or -8 on social, -4 on economics.

This test always invariably causes shitfits around here, among the people who are convinced "libertarian" (small l) is a dirty word.

[stockholmer]

35. I am aware of the unfavourable connotations of the word "libertarian" here on DU, thus my extended

links to non-right wing libertarian sources and philosophers/political scientists.

It is so frustrating that even on the so-called 'left' in the USA, the black/white, "little-to-no grey" schema is so alive and well.

The Tea-Party, Koch brothers funded co-opting of the word libertarian is a sick, corporatist joke, and many in the Libertarian (Big L) Party, although they despise the fake Tea Party, also endorse overly corporatist measures too (albeit much less than the Tea-Baggers or mainstream Democrats or mainstream Republicans).

The one thing I do agree with (in terms of some on the actual libertarian Right in the USA), is their absolute hatred of empire.

The co-opted Tea Baggers are, for the vast part, completely against any cutbacks in military expenditures. They are a sham, and it is so unfortunate that mainstream corporate media in the USA frames them as the main face of libertarianism.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. the teabaggers are just the same old christian right wack-a-doos rebranded.

It'd be nice to see REAL small-l libertarian ideas get some play; legalize pot, get govt out of the consenting adult morality business, allow the terminally ill to choose a pain-free, dignified exit, etc.

[stockholmer]

38. I unfortunately have to give those fucking Koch brothers credit, they took a viable force and really

co-opted the entire thing. The Tea-Baggers are cartoon thugs, and they have chocked off all legitimate libertarian (right-libertarian mostly, as left-libertarian is not even in the ball park, most Americans think left and libertarian are 2 utterly incapable things) debate, and made it a taboo subject in a multitude of ways for many election cycles to come, I fear.

The original Tea Party was founded in 2006 by Tom Knapp, http://www.indytruth.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry080620-185101 and gained many follows from the Ron Paul supporters over the next 2 years. But by 2009, the Koch bots had infiltrated and re-branded so much of the platform into typical foolish corporate pro-war, anti-gay, pro-security state claptrap.

Pretty funny video (Tea Partier vs Libertarian)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BY5ZGurCU

[trackfan]

37. I'm pretty much a commie, I guess.

Economic Left/Right: -9.12

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

[stockholmer]

46. actually, a communist would score in the positive axis on the scale of authoritarianism

[demwing]

39. -9 Economically / -5.95 Socially

Professional Lefty



http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.00&soc=-5.95

[The Wielding Truth]

41. Economic Left/Right: -6.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

[Modern_Matthew]

42. -10, -7.03

[ballabosh]

43. I've taken this before...

But I think I've moved further left:

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

[YellowRubberDuckie]

44. I'm more liberal than GHANDI.

YES.

[Rex]

47. Mine said that too, although somehow I doubt I really am.

I wonder what he was more authoritarian and conservative on?

[liberalmuse.com]

49. MY RESULTS: Important for some reason

Economic Left/Right: -9.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

[Shagbark Hickory]

50. Oh Noez!!! I broke it!

http://politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?showform=&Me=-12%2C-9&Obama=8%2C8&Obama=on&Obama=4%2C6&Obama=on&newname=&newec=&newsoc=

[WiffenPoof]

51. Social Libertarian n/t

[mitchtv]

52. 6.88 economic 4.05 auth

not as extreme as I was

[nadinbrzezinski]

53. Well it has not changed much

Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

[BNJMN]

55. Considering I just did this (here on DU) not 2 months ago, I'll pass. [nt]

[steve2470]

57. libertarian left for me

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90

[Shandris]

58. Hrm. My results came out differently than other times.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

Yet if you were to talk to me at length, I think you'd find that my 'overall' outlook is nearly a reversal of those two figures...which the other Political Compass tests got...or maybe I was trying to be too nuanced. :)

At either rate, chillin' with Nelson Mandela and Ghandi, along with most of DU. :D

*Obviously, I mean the two figures are inverted, not DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED! :silly:

[citizen snips]

59. Left Authoritarian

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-2.62&soc=6.67

[diveguy]

60. almost dead center

-1.00 and -0.56

[DiverDave]

61. Sorta right in the middle of

the bottom left block:

Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

[bluedigger]

62. Just another anarcho-syndicalist.

Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

63. k&r

[Change Happens]

64. My political compass: Economic Left/Right: -5.75 & Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31

I am in the corner with Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Gandhi :)

Almost identical with Nerlson Mandela...

[LWolf]

65. I've taken it many times.

While I don't remember the exact numbers, I'm always a little left of and south of Ghandi.

Unlike most of those at DU who land in that quadrant, I don't vote for authoritarian/right candidates.

[mwooldri]

66. Chillin' with Ghandi and Mandela too...

It's typically where I have always hung around with this test, always left, and always below center on the authortarian/anarchistic line.

Sadly in some areas DU members have got no choice but to vote for an authoritarian and right wing candidate... it's how much either way they go.

[rdking647]

67. slightly left liberatarian

about where I thought I'd be

economic left right -.38
authority/libertarian -2.38

[NorthCarolina]

68. About the same every time I have taken it.

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13

Move over Gandhi, I'm to the left of you.