Political Compass

[Raistlin]

Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.79

The one-party question is true by the way - even though a one-party system would be bad, it's true that it's quicker

But there's the term "advantage" in there. Whether you consider that an advantage or not is a value judgment.

[Old Manus]

Well that's the way I see it

[faster skating penguin]

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

I'm almost exactly where Ghandi was :/

I'm really not that arachistic(realword?), but I answered the questions truthfully, and there were really none I was on the fence about, but whatever.

[Lost Number]

-7.something
-1.something.
Commies rule!

[Shoden]

Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31

I hardly understand this, is this good or bad?

[Del Murder]

I wonder what The Redneck would have gotten.

[eestlinc]

Aristotle also said that society should be ruled by the philosophers, because everyone else was too stupid to do it, so I think we can discount most of his political suggestions.

EDIT : ...Or was that Plato? I can't remember, those Greek philosophers talked an awful lot of bunk in between their rare nuggets of wisdom.

That was Plato. The most accurate example of a modern-day Philosopher King was Mao.

[The Man]

I don't know if the old version of this thread was purged with EoTW, but I want to know if I've moved significantly.

Don't mods have access to EotW?

The most accurate example of a modern-day Philosopher King was Mao.

I suppose one could argue that. Mao was a bit of a whack job, though

[Raistlin]

"Bit of a whack job?" More like raving lunatic. Isn't he the one who tried to make China into a communist communes state which failed disastrously?

[The Man]

Yeah he had this whole thing where kids weren't supposed to finish their education but take up arms against dissidents or something. He arguably did even more to discredit Communism than Stalin did.

edit: http://rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/mao/

[Rase]

Economic Left/Right: -0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.15

I'm almost perfectly in the center. I pretty much expected this, since I usually have trouble making desicions and tend to try and compromise everything.

In other words, I'm boring.

[Madame Adequate]

Yeah he had this whole thing where kids weren't supposed to finish their education but take up arms against dissidents or something. He arguably did even more to discredit Communism than Stalin did.

edit: http://rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/mao/

Arguably? Mao wasn't nearly as stupid. Mao was an incredibly capable leader, who went significantly further than Stalin to implement actual Communism. And he ended up killing even more people.

Also, he was actually really smart, and really popular. Had he just used the right system, China would already be number one on Earth, probably by quite some way.

The only reason he's not held up as the first example of Communism in action is because we weren't close allies with China in WW2, and we didn't subsequently have a Cold War for almost 50 years. China hasn't been in the west's domain enough for us to really have noticed, and now that he's gone there's not going to be a terribly large fuss about him, I wager.

[Lindy]

I wonder what The Redneck would have gotten.

BANNED!

lolamirite?

[DK]

Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44


Best part is I have no smurfing clue what that means. Go, ignorance!

Edit: Although I am close to Gandhi, so brownazn shines through.

[The Man]

Arguably? Mao wasn't nearly as stupid. Mao was an incredibly capable leader, who went significantly further than Stalin to implement actual Communism. And he ended up killing even more people.

Also, he was actually really smart, and really popular. Had he just used the right system, China would already be number one on Earth, probably by quite some way.

The only reason he's not held up as the first example of Communism in action is because we weren't close allies with China in WW2, and we didn't subsequently have a Cold War for almost 50 years. China hasn't been in the west's domain enough for us to really have noticed, and now that he's gone there's not going to be a terribly large fuss about him, I wager.

Well yeah, he was really capable at getting people to follow him. But a lot of his plans... well... weren't really very effective at anything other than killing people. xD