What is my political leaning?

[indya]

Hey, i just took the political compass test and go the scores:
www dot politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.65&soc=-5.50
or Economic Left/Right -7.65, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.50
the number of political leanings (leninist, maoist, hoxhaist, stalinist, etc) is just daunting. Just based onthese two numbers (not saying much at all I suppose) do you know where I may fall in these political leanings. Right now, I think I may have luxemburgist views but would that be consistent with my scores? thanks

[Sixiang]

They could be anything, really. I suggest checking out the readings of these various people. I suggest starting with Marx and Engels and then moving on to Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and so on and so on. Lenin writes under the assumption that the reader knows Marx. Stalin writes under the assumption that the reader knows Lenin. I know that the first time I took the test, I was just slightly to the left and very far down. Now I am extremely far left and a little more up, but not by much. My views have changed over time when I have become exposed to the writings of different socialist thinkers. Mostly because I never even thought of the things they theorized, and I was like "Oh yeah, that makes sense." Thus my views have changed quite a bit in the past year since discovering Marxism.

[Comrade_Stalin]

Hey, i just took the political compass test and go the scores:
www dot politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.65&soc=-5.50
or Economic Left/Right -7.65, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.50
the number of political leanings (leninist, maoist, hoxhaist, stalinist, etc) is just daunting. Just based onthese two numbers (not saying much at all I suppose) do you know where I may fall in these political leanings. Right now, I think I may have luxemburgist views but would that be consistent with my scores? thanks

From what I have seen, these political compass are almost useless in telling a person where they stand. I once took one of these test and was called an anarchist by the results, even thought I was a Stalinist. But as much as I can tell off this test, you are more closer to the ultra-Left. I would start there and move out.

[Victus Mortuum]

Well, according to my Political-Compass Position-To-Tendency Translator you are a...

Libertarian "Stalinist"!

[indya]

Well, according to my Political-Compass Position-To-Tendency Translator you are a...

Libertarian "Stalinist"!

haha. I knew that just going off of political compass thing was too vague. I'll just read up on all of the marxist tendencies!

[28350]

Bedfordite Bonapartist.

[Catmatic Leftist]

Most of us range from -5 to -10 on both axes. However, I do think that authoritarian communists will be a tiny bit less libertarian than libertarian communists and anarchists.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Your tendency could be anything. The political compass test just measures your philosophical view of the basic rights of humanity. Tendencies on the left have more to do with tactics, organizing, and process, than they do with actual rights and what-not. Though, anarchists and libertarian communists will tend to be closer to the bottom left corner than more authoritarian Marxists.

[L.A.P.]

The political compass test is just for an overview but they don't ever cover specific tendencies. Anyone who tries to say one tendency is more left than the other is a plain idiot and I suggest you don't listen to them. With that score you could be any of the tendencies ranging from Anarchist to Stalinist, hell you could be a Social Democrat. The best advice is to read and then you'll figure it out.

[psgchisolm]

Hey, i just took the political compass test and go the scores:
www dot politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.65&soc=-5.50
or Economic Left/Right -7.65, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.50
the number of political leanings (leninist, maoist, hoxhaist, stalinist, etc) is just daunting. Just based onthese two numbers (not saying much at all I suppose) do you know where I may fall in these political leanings. Right now, I think I may have luxemburgist views but would that be consistent with my scores? thanks
lol your scores are actually pretty close to mine.
Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
Me being a Revolutionary Democratic Socialist. These tests really don't mean to much in determining your political leaning.

[Ocean Seal]

Hey, i just took the political compass test and go the scores:
www dot politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.65&soc=-5.50
or Economic Left/Right -7.65, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.50
the number of political leanings (leninist, maoist, hoxhaist, stalinist, etc) is just daunting. Just based onthese two numbers (not saying much at all I suppose) do you know where I may fall in these political leanings. Right now, I think I may have luxemburgist views but would that be consistent with my scores? thanks
You don't have to pick a tendency immediately and the political compass isn't something that you should take too seriously. The numbers don't mean much. Look into every tendency see what you like and what you don't like. If you liked Luxemburgism before the test I don't see what these numbers have changed. Just remember you and your ideology are more than two arbitrary numbers.

[GPDP]

IMO, the Political Compass is useless unless you are just, and I mean JUST getting into politics, or if you're a liberal. Otherwise, those numbers mean almost nothing. I routinely see anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, social-democrats, and even run-of-the-mill liberals get similar scores to yours.

I recommend instead of looking for answers based on a test that really only applies to liberals of all stripes, you read and ask questions here. Only then can you properly formulate an opinion on what kind of socialist you are.

EDIT: Just to show you how little the score you get matters, I used to consider myself an anarchist, and would get a score of around -9,-9 at the time. About two years later, upon dropping the anarchist label and coming to identify with Marxism more, my score became -10,-9.75. So even though anarchism is usually considered to be "ultra-left" by many Marxists, I actually became MORE "anarchist" by the test's standards despite moving away from anarchism.

So yeah, the numbers mean nothing.

[SamV]

I got

Economics: -5ish

Social: -9ish

I consider myself to be an anarcho-communist

[Rafiq]

This is really stupid..

Read political works and decide for yourself what tendency you want to embrace.

Because, you're just going to be biased based on your political beliefs when taking the test anyway.

Which is why I stopped taking it on the second page.

We don't decide what tendency you are, and neither does a test. You decide what you are.

[TC]

the political compass isn't a real political test its propaganda for libertarianism; it certainly cannot tell you anything so specific as what tendency within leftism you 'fall into' - and if you need to ask - the answer is that you do not yet have a specific tendency within the left - which is okay, you don't have to conform to a FamousLefistIsm, - I for example, do not identify with any anymore.