The Official Political Compass Thread 2012

[Rath]

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:

Still pretty much a liberal here.

Edit: Also top left isn't socialist, if anything it's communist. Socialism isn't authoritarian by nature.

Nah you've got it backwords.

Communism is green.  At least late stage communism.

Socialism would be top right because it essnetially promotes tyranny by the majority. (And I suspect agressive foreign policy.)

Socialism is a catch all phrase for a variety of economic philosophies - basically involving high government regulation, socialization of various aspects of industry and redistribution of wealth through progressive taxation. It doesn't fit on the liberarian-authoritarian line at all and you can have an authoritarian socialist state (leninist/stalinist communism) or a libertarian socialist state (social democracy).