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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. 4 comments
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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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.