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[Lawrence of Arabia]

1. Social Liberal
2. Social Democrat
3. Third Way
4. Market Liberal
5. Libertarian Conservative
6. Green or Ecologist

[Gangerolf]

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

[Thrawn05]

01: Christian democrat
02: social democrat
03: Green
04: classical socialist
05: fascist
06: Social Liberal
07: third way
08: communist
09: libertarian conservative
10: anarcho-communist
11: market liberal
12: anarcho-capitalist

mmmm... this is perhaps the weirdest survey I've done yet.

[Az]

But it one of the most correct ones, AFAIS.

Your Fascist is a bit high. do you feel a sudden urge to destroy this poll?

[August Borms]

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

[Al B. Sure!]

August Borms!


Dave Floyd:

Yes but this is a poll from the European standpoint and in Europe there are more diverse political differences. No significant number of people in the united states are marxist. Our left-wing groups, the Democrats and even the Green Party are still relatively capitalistic, when viewed compared to communists and socialists.

The United States is naturally more libertarian than Europe and we have always been since 1776. This causes our libertarianism to be somewhat conservative... don't think about American divisions between libertarians and conservatives... but think from a European and specifically marxist standpoint that libertarian capitalists are conservative as opposed to the progressive (opposite of conservative) socialists.

Don't think conservative as favouring school prayer conservative... think conservative as the opposite of marxism... thus, libertarians are conservative.


thanks

[axi]

#1 You are an anarcho-communist,
#2 You are a communist.
#3 You are a classical socialist
#4 You are an ecologist or green.
#5 You are a social democrat.
#6 You are a social liberal.
#7 You are a fascist.
#8 You adhere to the Third Way.
#9 You are an anarcho-capitalist.
#10 You are a market liberal.
#11 You are a Christian democrat
#12 You are a libertarian conservative.

The author's viewpoint on communism is skewed, that's why it has come second. Communists believe in the abolition of the state as well as anarchists. Just read "State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin.

[St Leo]

I've highlighted the more accurate ones.

#1 You are a social liberal
#2 You are an ecologist or green
#3 You are a communist
#4 You are a social democrat
#5 You are an anarcho-communist
#6 You are a classical socialist
#7 You are an anarcho-capitalist
#8 You are a market liberal
#9 You adhere to the Third Way
#10 You are a fascist
#11 You are a Christian democrat
#12 You are a libertarian conservative

[David Floyd]

AS,

First off, I just had a similar argument with Drogue over what a Libertarian is and stands for.

But anyway,

The United States is naturally more libertarian than Europe and we have always been since 1776.

And again, the US cannot in any way be called Libertarian. The US may have supported a couple of ideals that libertarians would agree with, but the US has also supported ideas that socialists and communists would agree with. Does that make the US communistic? Of course not.

This causes our libertarianism to be somewhat conservative...

Again, by the same argument, the US is also somewhat communist.

[Al B. Sure!]

David Floyd:

Alright we need to make sure we got a basic ground-work going on here... do you consider the jeffersonians to be significantly libertarian?

[David Floyd]

Not really. They owned slaves, after all.

[Al B. Sure!]

Dave:

You're thinking too much from an American perspective... think from the perspective of biased, anti-capitalist marxist europeans... from a leftist position, libertarians, being capitalist, and embodying the ideals of the American republic (even if they were not realized a la slavery), are non-progressive... they are conservative as they hold onto the 'ancient' idea of capitalism.


thanks

[David Floyd]

You're thinking too much from an American perspective... think from the perspective of biased, anti-capitalist marxist europeans... from a leftist position, libertarians, being capitalist, and embodying the ideals of the American republic (even if they were not realized a la slavery), are non-progressive... they are conservative as they hold onto the 'ancient' idea of capitalism.

I don't really care who's perspective you are viewing things from. The point is, Libertarianism is about freedom. If one does not support freedom in a consistent manner, then one is not a Libertarian. Simple as that.

[Al B. Sure!]

David Floyd:

Europeans... what you expect?

[David Floyd]

Well that's a good point, supporting freedom in a consistent manner is not really the strong suit of most Europeans, or at least that's the trend I see here.

Then again, that applies to most Americans, too.