See, I’m no tankie, I’m a radical anarcho communist according to this chart
Link if you want to try it yourself: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
It’s natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.
How is this a political question?
When you are troubled, it’s better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.
Do the makers of this test know what politics is?
Astrology accurately explains many things.
The only relevant ideology that believes this is Reaganism.
Foucault says school is bad. That’s it. That’s what his book says right here: “school is bad honhonhon”.
The modern schooling system in the US and much of Europe has evolved directly out of educational institutions pioneered in the 19th century with the intent of turning the working class into better soldiers and subjecting them to nationalist indoctrination.
The rigidly enforced structure and hierarchical relations inside of it are obviously authoritarian.
The children havng secrets question strikes me as being a right-wing Christian question, as they are often controlling of children
You’re all a bunch of libs, if you won’t provide the vanguard, I will!!!
Seriously though, I had to respond with some fucked up ideals to get it to register like this. This test is beyond trash and they want donations at the end lol! The ultimate lib grift.
I tried to go as “authoritarian” as possible by its standards and I only got this
Picturing doing the test and finding out that he’s an anarchist
If you aren’t hitler or mussolini you literally can’t get to auth-left. This shitty test is essentially a “are you an asshole?” test and if you answer “no” you will be hailed as the one true anarchist. So yes. Xi would be considered an anarchist by the political cumpiss.
yeah this. the entire questionaire is built in a way that makes it impossible to be auth-left unless you’re some kind of nazbol or strasserite. none of the questionaire items deal with positions that would actually be “authoritarian” positions of a Marxist-Leninist, such as “freedom of the press and freedom of assembly sometimes have to take a backseat to fighting off counter-revolutionaries” or “a vanguard party sometimes needs to do purges to weed out corruption, incompetence and careerism”. Instead, you are an authoritarian leftist if you hate abstract art and gay people and beat your children. Like, that’s literally what you need to answer to score as a Maoist. If you espouse social policies of the USSR, such as being pro-abortion, being anti-racist and getting women out of the kitchen and into the universities, this test counts you as less of a Marxist-Leninist.
It’s pure horseshoe theory at work, it tries to measure how fascist you are and how communist you are by the same questions, and the result is that actual communists cannot score as communists. Go figure.
Yeah it really raises questions about those 16 year olds on /r/politicalcompassmemes who have the red flair
The one good thing that the test does is highlight how thin the pretense that (American and American-inspired) conservatives have of wanting “personal freedom and small government” is.
Even in countries where sexism, homophobia, and abusive parenting are (unfortunately) still common amongst the left, many people would still end up in the libertarian half just by supporting racial equality, international unity, and abortion. Like, I tried doing the test except with my answers changed to support homophobia, anti-drug/porn laws, and hitting children and still ended up (barely) in the libertarian half.
And yet, despite the test being made by right-libertarians to promote their ideology, the vast majority of Americans who take it fall on the bottom-left to top-right spectrum, with only a handful in the bottom right quadrant.
Edit: They also do election analysis where they put candidates on the chart (basically just based on vibes) and it still follows a bottom-left to top-right spectrum. Interestingly enough, they do label the vast majority of candidates in the 2020 US elections as right-wing authoritarians, despite the fact that their test labels anyone to the left of Mike Bloomberg as a left-libertarian.
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Someone help how do I score this?
