The (new) Official Political Compass Thread - All Users of VGC join in!

[zuvuyeay]

Kantor said:

zuvuyeay said:
i can't post it until i get my new computer,but good thread,i'd imgine i'll be in the blue box somewhere

i don't really understand how socialism can be the polar opposite to capitalism these days,it doesn't really make sense to me

It's not. Pure socialism (full government control of the economy) is the opposite of pure capitalism (the government doesn't touch the economy - hell, there probably IS no government).

The reason most economies are a mixture of both is that the leaders don't score -10 or +10 on the Political Compass. The moment you go down to even +9 or +8, you're beginning to bring socialist ideas into the equation. At 0, you have a full balance of socialist and capitalist ideas. In the modern world, most Western countries are more capitalist than Socialist, so they end up somewhere in the +3 to +6 range.

interesting,pure socialism would have no government either just one mans ideal through force