Political Compass Test.

[MaoandMummar]

It would be cool to learn where everyone stand and get a feel where those of certain ideologies end up. if you have 5-10 minutes take the test and post your results, If you already have and know your results then post away. Thank you for reading/taking the test. ~MM
Politicalcompass.org

[The Idler]

Where do you think users of revleft would be placed?

[Vanilla]

I don't remember my results but they were around -8 in both quadrants.
I'm curious to see as to what users on here think about the test though, like if they think they questions are good and the results are accurate.

[tuwix]

My result is
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.62&soc=-7.13


Where do you think users of revleft would be placed?


I think the most of us will take green square. But many Leninists and Stalinists wiil take red one.

[Bronco]

I don't remember my results but they were around -8 in both quadrants.
I'm curious to see as to what users on here think about the test though, like if they think they questions are good and the results are accurate.

No the questions aren't good at all because they're all asked within a capitalist framework and rely on the assumption that you support it, like they require you to choose between prioritising inflation or unemployment, whether corporations should be regulated, if there needs to be 'restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies' etc.

[Tim Cornelis]

My result is
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.62&soc=-7.13




I think the most of us will take green square. But many Leninists and Stalinists wiil take red one.

I think all Leninists and Stalinists will be in the left bottom of the green square. I think all revleft members will. Only Tankies end up in the red one.

[Jimmie Higgins]

No the questions aren't good at all because they're all asked within a capitalist framework and rely on the assumption that you support it, like they require you to choose between prioritising inflation or unemployment, whether corporations should be regulated, if there needs to be 'restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies' etc.

Yeah and some are just abstract. Although some questions are not within the capitalist framwork like the Marx quote, "from each... to each".

I think beyond the assumptions about politics (and there always needed to be a state apparently according to this test) I don't think politics exists on a continuous spectrum as it's presented here. They've mearly added "authoritarian/libertarian" to the tradditional left-right (by which they seem to mean pro- or anti-market). But it's generally enough that I guess it will get you in the ballpark - but I can't imagine anyone doing this and then seeing the results and finding out, "hey I'm a right-libertarian" if they didn't already have a hunch.


Well at any rate, here's mine:



<H1>Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31

</H1>

[Marxaveli]

No the questions aren't good at all because they're all asked within a capitalist framework and rely on the assumption that you support it, like they require you to choose between prioritising inflation or unemployment, whether corporations should be regulated, if there needs to be 'restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies' etc.

Too true.

Anyway, I scored -10/-10

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

My result is
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.62&soc=-7.13




I think the most of us will take green square. But many Leninists and Stalinists wiil take red one.

I always got -10/-10 on this one. It's a piece of rubbish this test.

[Fourth Internationalist]

I did it a while ago and I think I was -9.88 left wing and -7.23 libertarian. Pretty accurate.

[Skyhilist]

Yeah this test is really only accurate for libertarian socialists (myself included here)... because pretty much everyone on here ends up in the green. But anyways, last time I took it I got about -9/-9

[Zaza]

7/10 Left
4/10 Libertarian

[#FF0000]

But many Leninists and Stalinists wiil take red one.

Nah literally everyone gets the green square, because the Political Compass is kind of a shitty test for people whose politics go beyond the left or right wing of the current state of things, you know?

[Goblin]

Mine (if anyone cares):

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.75&soc=-7.49

[Revy]

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

[billydan]

im taking it right now

[billydan]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-0.50&soc=-0.77

[Sea]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-10.00&soc=-3.28

Whelp, that totally wasn't written by a leftist. I've also noticed that little red dot drifts up sometimes when I'm pissed off and downwards when I'm feeling groovy.


http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-0.50&soc=-0.77
"far left communist" indeed ;)

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I'm too tired to take the test in full, but I think it's basically bollocks when it comes to anything except bourgeois ideology, or maybe those pitiful remnants of feudal ideology that some peddle. I mean, consider questions such as:

"The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders."

So, obviously the "left" answer is supposed to be that no, companies have a responsibility to support local culture sustainable development blablabla. But this is the answer of a paternalistic liberal. The socialist answer is "N/A: throw the shareholders out and nationalise the company".

Or:

"A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies."

Who the fuck cares about a "genuine" free market? We want to abolish the market. The "left" answer is, again, not socialist, but petit-bourgeois wankery about "true" free markets.

[Per Levy]

its a useless test that says nothing, most people who are commies or anarchs of mostly all stripes will fall in the green field often enough very much to the left and very much to the libertarian side. it tells you nothing about you or your politcs. i did the test a couple of years ago though, if i recall it was in the -9/-8 region.

[Ele'ill]

Is there a radical political compass test

[Pirate Utopian]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=10&soc=10

[Sea]

Who the fuck cares about a "genuine" free market? We want to abolish the market. The "left" answer is, again, not socialist, but petit-bourgeois wankery about "true" free markets.
Yes, this, so much. Of course it's always looads of fun to digress to a crackerjack test author. I mean some good things are said (eg. Obama being a rightist) on that site but I have a hard time imagining Stalin saying "Yeah, hmm, we need to regulate the corporations!" despite that the author placed him firmly in a place where one would have to agree with that.


Is there a radical political compass test
There's this (http://www.politicaltest.net/) that gives you a 3d thing (take that simplistic square!) and spits out an orientation / tendency at the end.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

There's this (http://www.politicaltest.net/) that gives you a 3d thing (take that simplistic square!) and spits out an orientation / tendency at the end.

I tried that one, and it told me I was a social democrat. :confused:

......Maybe an old-school pre-reformist social democrat?

[Palmares]

Back in the day, I did this test enough to actually know how to get -10/-10. :blackA:

So that was my final result, or two (or three?).

[GPDP]

It's babby's first introduction to politics. Not much to it, really. Not only is it squarely within the realm of bourgeois ideology, it is also grossly limited in that everyone outside that realm will basically get lumped in the same place, despite the inexorable gulf between leftist tendencies.

I did have a professor use it to show how much more to the left most students were than the politicians they tend to vote for, though.

[Asmo]

I get -10, -10 on the Political Compass. I haven't taken it in a while but I doubt it has changed.
On the other test I get this:
http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic2/272537_eng.jpg
The last time I took this (maybe a year ago), I was less pacifist, more ecological, less secular, and less visionary. It's fairly better than the Political Compass, but it's still over simplified. It's better to just say "I am an Anarcho-Communist" or whatever is appropriate for you.

[Vanilla]

I tried that one, and it told me I was a social democrat. :confused:

......Maybe an old-school pre-reformist social democrat?

I got the same thing. I'm not quite sure what was up.



Is there a radical political compass test

Someone on revleft should make one. It doesnt have to be that complicated and it would be interesting

[Brutus]

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

[soso17]

On the first test, -8/-6.

On the other...
They said I'm a TROTSKYIST!!!

I need to go take a shower now...I feel dirty...

[Vercingetorix]

Weird.

Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

-5.85? What did I answer wrong?

I'm Pro-Choice!
I'm Queer!

How is it that I'm slightly more authoritarian than everyone else?!

I'm the guy who talks about the fact that when states don't respect individual liberty, they have no legitimacy!

I'm an anarchist!

... how did I get only -5 on Individual liberty?

[Always Curious J]

Certainly not the best questions by any stretch of the imagination as others have expressed, however I scored a seeminly typical (here at least)
Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

[BIXX]

On the first test,

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

In the other one:

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic2/273117_eng.jpg

The questions still have no acceptable leftist answers. They all presume you are OK with capitalism, and that there are not facets. For example, if it were to ask the question "It is acceptable to use violence" there would be no correct answer. The answer (IMO) would be that it should only be used if no other way is possible. I think you'd almost need to do a cube, with the same parameters (Nationalist-Cosmopolitan, Authoritarian-Libertarian, and Economic Right/Left). Then it would need to have more than SA-A-N-D-SD, rather, it would need to have an array of options, from the most capitalist/authoritarian/nationalistic sides to the most communist/authoritarian/cosmopolitan sides.

It would be cool if we could somehow have a test register and understand our written answers rather than requiring us to choose from a limited number of options.

[Blake's Baby]

Weird.

Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

-5.85? What did I answer wrong?

...
I'm the guy who talks about the fact that when states don't respect individual liberty, they have no legitimacy!

I'm an anarchist!...

Probably only -5.85 because you're an 'anarchist' that believes states that respect 'individual liberty' do have legitimacy. So, not really an anarchist, more a liberal who believes in a tightly controlled economy, AKA a social-democrat.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.18

Quelle surprise!

What a shitty test. Why ask me about free markets? Any answer is wrong there!

[Blake's Baby]

Yeah. I like the 'do you think governments should control corporations, or that corporations should be free of government?' one.

No, I don't believe either of those things.

Likewise I neither believe that hobbits are taller than goblins, nor that goblins are taller than hobbits.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

On the first test, -8/-6.

On the other...
They said I'm a TROTSKYIST!!!

I need to go take a shower now...I feel dirty...

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

[Bostana]

http://politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?.=0.0%2C0.0%3Cdiv%20style=

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

Nice one!

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

There's this (http://www.politicaltest.net/) that gives you a 3d thing (take that simplistic square!) and spits out an orientation / tendency at the end.

There is some collectivism shimmering through at times...the amount of communism is just way off.

To much "i'm okay with capitalism"-questions.

[GerrardWinstanley]

My political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.44
http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.75&soc=-3.44And my political test result.You are an orthodox Marxist. 0 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 10 percent are more extremist than you.http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic2/273190_eng.jpghttp://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic6/273190_eng.jpgWow, I guess if the UK government makes good on its plans to crackdown on 'extremism', that's me fucked.

I hate the political compass by the way. Some of the questions are so vague and subjective, your answer is meaningless and it seems to take your views on clericalism vs secularism and on media dumbing down as a measure of how authoritarian you are (dubious at best, hardly anybody left or right actually admits to supporting cultural dumbing down). The other quiz is much better.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

There is some collectivism shimmering through at times...

Whoops! Forgot about that Labournote nonsense...Look away people! No collectivist here! :blushing:

[Dogs On Acid]

Do you really take these tests seriously?

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

I hope not...:laugh:

[Futility Personified]

I like the test, maybe on a forum of revolutionary leftists it is somewhat redundant, but it can provide ideological identity to a useful degree. For example, look at it's analysis of the EU parties in power: http://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart

It provides a perspective that someone who is politically undeveloped can understand. Think of all the people who are somewhat vague and undefined, but know what they dislike. It gives them something to measure and an indication of what direction to go in.

[Lokomotive293]

Took the tests a while ago, on the political compass test I got something like -9/-8 (That much to the guy who said Leninists are in the red corner). The other test always says I'm a Trotskyist, so yeah, wtf.

[Lex Talionis]

The Political Compass is a joke. Too biased, it assumes you're content with capitalism and advocate a free-market version thereof.

Anyway, a much better test is Political Test. It may still be biased but it's more accurate and has more categories as well.

I can't post links because I'm a newbie, so I'll just post the results in text form.


Patriotic and authoritarian Socialist

0% Cosmopolitan/Nationalistic
51% Secular
5% Visionary
25% Authoritarian
55% Communistic
20% Militaristic
17% Anthropocentric

I'm not sure why I got Patriotic, I got 0% for Cosmopolitan/Nationalism.

[redfist.]

Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56



Far left at the bottom of the green zone.

[Црвена]

Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05

That describes me pretty well actually! I think this test does have a tendency to put people in the libertarian-left quarter, though.

[Blake's Baby]

No, just people who hang out on RevLeft.

It's possible to get a 'centrist' score too, or even a top-right (authoritarian, pro-capitalist) score. Obviously though, any test of this kind is only going to be of limited utility to people that are mostly in the same ballpark. My figures are close to yours - I bet there's plenty we disagree on.

[Jemdet Nasr]

htt ps://i.imgur.com/VD6prSG.png

You guys might be interested in the test above. It ultimately has some of the same problems as the political compass (it caricatures ML beliefs), but I think it is at least more interesting.

[Redistribute the Rep]

Wait why does left = collectivism and right = libertarianism?! And why is Hitler only moderately to the right?! And it really doesn't capture the complexities and nuances between various leftist groups such as left communism, Leninism etc. also, most of the questions presuppose a capitalist society. Disappoint

[Rosa Partizan]

big surprise

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-8.50&soc=-6.46http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-8.50&soc=-6.46

[Diirez]

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic6/494809_eng.jpg
http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic2/494809_eng.jpg

I rank
Left/Right = -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian = -7.13

[Rosa Partizan]

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic2/494818_eng.jpg
You are a Trotskyist. 3 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 6 percent are more extremist than you.

hell no :laugh:

[Jemdet Nasr]

After taking the political test and getting social democrat, and reading so many questions about what I think the state should do and not given the option "go fuck itself", I feel like we should try and build a better online political leaning assessment.

Edit: I've been thinking about it, and I'm imagining something along the lines of an intelligent test. It starts with general questions trying to pin down what would be relevant to you, and then proceeds with questions that would actually relevant to your beliefs as it gets more specific. That way you don't end up with a test asking revolutionaries how they think the current system should solve problems

[John Lennin]

Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.90

http://i.imgur.com/zsrGxrd.jpg

Trotsky...well...no:laugh:

[Sinister Intents]

When I took the test I'm pretty sure I got a -8.96 and a -8.74, somehting like that.

What's the other test thing above?

[Smash Monogamy]

I think the most of us will take green square. But many Leninists and Stalinists wiil take red one.

A lot of the authoritarian statements in the test really just reflect social conservatism, so I doubt anyone on the site would get that.

[consuming negativity]

htt ps://i.imgur.com/VD6prSG.png

You guys might be interested in the test above. It ultimately has some of the same problems as the political compass (it caricatures ML beliefs), but I think it is at least more interesting.

Wow, it actually landed me in the right category. Did you make that? It is indeed interesting.

[Rosa Partizan]

Wow, it actually landed me in the right category. .

really? makes no sense at all.

[consuming negativity]

really? makes no sense at all.

You pick which statement you agree with on either axis and find the midpoint. It doesn't capture Marxism, Leninism, or Maoism correctly, though, but that's just because it's using the same scale that the political compass does (less vs more government; less vs more collectivism). So some of the ideologies won't be as well-defined. For example, the Nazi positions on race, religion, and other things aren't accurately portrayed. Nor is the "stagism" that Lenin advocated. You can tell the person who made it was someone in the bottom half of the spectrum there, which is probably why I find myself being accurately portrayed.

[BIXX]

htt ps://i.imgur.com/VD6prSG.png

You guys might be interested in the test above. It ultimately has some of the same problems as the political compass (it caricatures ML beliefs), but I think it is at least more interesting.


The only thing I dislike about that one is that it mischatacterizes egoism and primitivism etc... And the bottom half of the questions don't have anything that really applies to me.

[Jemdet Nasr]

Wow, it actually landed me in the right category. Did you make that? It is indeed interesting.

No, I actually didn't make it. Elsewhere, Someone linked to it, without a source. If I could find the thread again, I could ask them though.

[ProletariatPower]

I know the test is far from perfect, but I am very happy with my results. :grin:

http://s29.postimg.org/olc8cacav/political_compass.png

[BIXX]

The only thing I dislike about that one is that it mischatacterizes egoism and primitivism etc... And the bottom half of the questions don't have anything that really applies to me.


Maybe if they made that one three dimensional it'd be better (it is the best I've seen IMO).

[Smash Monogamy]

Maybe if they made that one three dimensional it'd be better (it is the best I've seen IMO).

Do you have a link to it?

[PeoplesRepublics]

I got
Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90
on Political Compass
And
cosmolpotan 67%
secular 76%
visonary 50%
anarchistic 27%
communistic 75%
Pacifist 30%
anthropocentric 19%
and apperently I'm a Trotskyist, which is not true, but apperently a lot of people who aren't trotskist on this site got awell

[BIXX]

https://i.imgur.com/VD6prSG.png

You find the statement you agree with then travel along that to the other statement that you agree with. It's surprisingly accurate for the average leftist I think, however it ignores/deals with the non-leftist radical groups inadequately (implies we hold positions we do not).

[Atsumari]

I know the test is far from perfect, but I am very happy with my results. :grin:

http://s29.postimg.org/olc8cacav/political_compass.png
Are you happy now?
http://i.imgur.com/PTemKIk.png

And if you guys thought these results were a bit absurd, you should check out what Scumfront got.

[ProletariatPower]

Are you happy now?

Well, it would be pretty cool to break politics as we know it. xD

As for scumfront, well this test is so messed up it place Hitler as center-right...so I imagine their results would be quite laughable.

[syzygy]

You find the statement you agree with then travel along that to the other statement that you agree with.

That can't be how it works. In many cases the lines converge at the intersections of up to four different ideologies. And no lines converge on Maoism or Nazism.

[Jemdet Nasr]

In many cases the lines converge at the intersections of up to four different ideologies. And no lines converge on Maoism or Nazism.

You don't have to follow the lines exactly. The idea is that your actual beliefs will fall between two lines, rather actually on them. Following the lines exactly will only get you in the ball park of your beliefs.

[BolshevikBabe]

I usually get about -8 on social and -10 on economic. Considering my ideology I should apparently be in the corner of the red quadrant, but tbh neither I nor any of the Marxist-Leninists I know have even gotten into the red quadrant before, let alone the very top of it.

[OGLemon]

And if you guys thought these results were a bit absurd, you should check out what Scumfront got.
lol I just found a thread and most of them were left wing authoritarians