Political Compass - New Score
Posted by Richard S. on August 27, 2007
Well, I went back to the political compass after a while… I seem to have moved (back) to the ultra-left on the economic scale and slightly to the right on the social scale.
I’m probably more to the right on the social scale because I marked a conservative-seeming answer for one or two of the sex questions. That’s because some of the questions in that area were a little too limited and didn’t really allow for qualifications or nuances. Frankly, I do think there’s too much sex out there in the marketplace, but that’s because sex is being used so much to sell other things. I have less of a problem with people just selling sex or pornography directly, or just putting it into the content of their artistic products, than with so many manufacturers of consumer items or entertainment using sex in their advertising to manipulate us through our genitals. But all that stuff is kind of a minor issue to me (empasized more than necessary in this particular test).
I guess I had no ambivalence regarding the economic questions. (Well, I did read about two and half volumes of Capital…) Last time around, for some reason, my economic left-right score back-pedaled into the -800s. This time, I’m way over at the end of the -900s, right at the edge of the graph (which was my score the first time I took this quiz, years ago).
Of all the political compass scores that I’ve seen around the Internet, the one who has the closest to mine is anarchist communist named Flint, whose economic left-right score is identical to mine…
Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28
