Political Compass Thread

[Imran Siddiqui]

Anarchism (you know, the state withering away) is also the economic left.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Leprechaun princesses managing the economy: right wing or left wing?

[Ben Kenobi]

Libertarianism is right, I believe my +7 is the highest for fiscal conservativism. I'm right about where Hayek is.

[Dauphin]

Anarchism (you know, the state withering away) is also the economic left.

With the odd exception/outlier of anarcho-capitalism.

[Sava]

Anarchism (you know, the state withering away) is also the economic left.

Only by idiots' definition.

Generally, the economic left/right paradigm is a measurement of state intervention in the economy. What's sad is that you have a political science degree and should know this. But in your defense, your 100-level classes where, what, almost 15 years ago?

[Imran Siddiqui]

With the odd exception/outlier of anarcho-capitalism.

Indeed. Though I more had Kropotkin in mind (we had poster by that name in the past, didn't we?).

[Sava]

I'm more of a capitalist than anything else... progressive taxation... regulate big business... encourage small business.

On day one of the Sava presidency/dictatorship, the size of government would shrink dramatically. The overall budget (of the US) would be slashed. Most of it being defense spending cuts. I'd also end the drug war. I'm for open borders, the free flow of labor across international boundaries.

Socially? Yes, I'm a solid liberal (or anti-authoritarian). If you aren't harming anyone, get the government out of people's lives.

Modern political jargon has been bastardized to such an extent that "socialist" and "fascist" mean the same thing, in certain circles. You aren't that retarded... but nevertheless, you often demonstrate a very rudimentary understanding of political terms and concepts.

[Ben Kenobi]

Most of it being defense spending cuts.

And after the republic of Texas secedes from Savastan, we'll see how long that lasts.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

I don't think Texas would react that way to slashing the federal budget.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In order to show just how wrong Sava is, I'm just going to put this here from The Political Compass site:



See the Voluntary Regional Collectivism thing there in the bottom left...

[Sava]

/facepalm

I love you Imran.

[loinburger]

I don't think Texas would react that way to slashing the federal budget.

The question is whether the average Texan is more enamored of a reduced federal budget or of state sponsored murder - BK evidently favors the latter

[C0ckney]

Wouldn't that make it far more silly to have me be more left than you? A more equal distribution of resources involving the state, maintaining private property, is FAR more conservative than abolishing the state and establishing popular control of resources, by many orders of degrees. The end is not necessarily similar, I think, as the society and the distribution of resources would look very different.

possibly, although an anarchist society may well be a less economically 'left' one than one run by state socialism. i agree with the second part.

i think some of the confusion in the test may come from the difference between free and regulated markets. no state would necessarily mean no regulation, at least of the kind we see now, so you wouldn't have regulated professions for example; yet this kind of thing is also advocated by a certain kind of economic liberal (in the classical sense). so there is some crossover between right-wing economic ideas and (most types of) anarchism, even if it is quite superficial, because the basis is completely different.

[Ben Kenobi]

The question is whether the average Texan is more enamored of a reduced federal budget or of state sponsored murder - BK evidently favors the latter

If America is going to cut constitutional powers in order to fund unconstitutional ones then there's no reason to remain governed by them.

[kentonio]

Good thing you're not American then and have absolutely no say in any such matter.