My political compass is
Economic Left/Right: -6.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10
Regards Martin Jackson
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Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:37
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Subject: Re: [WDDM] Deciding the future
course of action Hi,
for those who may be interested:
I've checked
out my "political compass." What I've found is:
Economic Left/Right: -4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.23
which means: in the middle of the left side, and near to the
boundary between libertarian and authoritarian sides, but in the
libertarian side.
Ciao, antonio
Vijayaraghavan
Padmanabhan ha scritto:
Dear Mirek, Mark and all, The political compass deepens our
understanding of politics and I am happy that I got the link at the right
time. When I suggested that we assess ourselves and display the
results when everyone was done with it, I was thinking that the result
would confirm my feeling that most of the people who have the true spirit of
democracy would find themselves as libertarian left. As expected Mirek,
Mark, Giorgio and myself have found ourselves to be libertarian left. I
suggest other members of the WDDM also do it and inform whether I am
right.
In other words, those having the true spirit of democracy have
a particular profile that has been brought out by the political compass,
brilliantly designed. Cheers to the designers. Another thing that is
striking is that most of the people who are influential and are in power in
today's world are all placed diametrically opposite - that is authoritarian
right.
Mark's suggestion that the compass could have included the
perspective towards democracy that one believes in is fine. It is indirectly
indicated by the position - those who are truly democratic would most
probably be libertarian left. However Mark differentiates between people
deciding and leader deciding, which seems to be the crux of the problem that
is haunting us. I have been suggesting that we view perspective towards
democracy as people in control vs party in control. I request Mark to
review the matter.
The task is cut out for those who have the true
spirit of democracy. We have to forget our minor differences and agree on a
common action plan and we should be able to do it. (Posting this in the
proposal forum - Mirek, posting in forum can automatically be posted on the
wiki. The reverse need not be there)
PVR
On Wed, 22 Aug
2007 MKolar wrote : >PVR, > I am not sure exactly what
conclusions you want to draw from a graph of member positions on the
political compass. But I agree that it may be an interesting experiment to
do. I suggest that you collect the political-compass coordinates of all the
members that are willing to send them to you, and you can then try to draw
some conclusions from it, and report back to
us. > >Mirek > >P.S. I agree with mark antell that
one more dimension (perspective toward democracy) in the political compass
could be useful. > > >Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan
wrote: >> >> Dear Mirek and all, >>There is
a feeling that it is time we decided whether WDDM is going to be a
predominantly discussion group or it is going to be a group with a definite
program of action. One reason for the on-going discussion is that we have
diverse outlooks and differences in opinion come to the fore when the line
of action has to be decided. >> >>There needs to be a
right balance of agreement and disagreement of views within a group for it
to successfully proceed with an action plan. Extreme differences as well as
total similarity in views are both detrimental for healthy constructive
action. >> >>I am giving below a link that can indicate to
a person regarding which political ideology he/she by nature belongs to: http://www.politicalcompass.org/ >>I
suggest that the members of WDDM go to it and find out their position.
Members can inform the result to the WDDM, where it can be displayed as a
chart or a graph. The result can be kept secret till most of the members
have done with it. This will prevent undue influence on other members and
avoid false impressions. >> >>Eventually this assessment
can pave the way for taking a sensible decision on our future course of
action. I am posting this on the proposal forum as
well. >> >>PVR >>
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