Gregory's Server@jackwilliambell @elduvelle What is it called when you're in the middle of the bottom left quarter (as I am)?
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 And don't get me started on political parties who are exactly the same in every dimension, except degree of racism or militarism. On that chart the Radical/Conservative dimension should, at the very least, be broken into two dimensions for 'Socialist/Capitalist' and 'Nonconformist/Traditionalist'. The subsequent 3D context space would then allow us to separate political leanings this chart would converge. That's my Battenberg Cake. In other threads of this conversation we've joked about really needing higher-dimensional manifolds to chart human political opinions. But it's one of those jokes that's only funny because (a) it's true and (b) it's basically impossible to realistically implement. A certain amount of math skill is required to visualize 4 or more dimensions. (I can manage four) And every time you add a dimension there are fewer people who can grok it. But there are other kinds of charts. @jackwilliambell @irina @elduvelle nah, that is a proper Social Democrat. Anarchists are more left than down.  @grouchox @jackwilliambell @elduvelle Social Democrat is what I thought. Anarchist sounds... well, not me. (I think leadership is useful, though it's hard to do well) |
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Of the 'political compass'? Anarchist. Lower right is (supposedly, but doesn't seem to hold up when you look at the real thing) Libertarian.
Edited to add: But that's the thing actually! For example there are different forms of anarchism, ranging from 'no laws, no lords' to Syndicalism. Some want a form of capitalism, but without property rights, and some want communism, but without the Party.
And the same heterodoxy holds true for the all the other positions on the chart.