Freebs2

Age: 24

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.38

You'd have to read the whole chapter for context, but Hayek's argument wasn't solely contained to recruitment strategies. My point was that it is relevant to your dialogue. Communists were more easily susceptible to being converted to fascism than liberals (which is the point of his chapter, the true enemy of Nazim AND Communism was liberalism.)Obama could've been a communist at one point and converted to fascism/corporatism. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

The Road to Serfdom is a book written by the Austrian-born economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992) between 1940–1943, in which he "warned of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning",^[1] and in which he argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of freedom, the creation of an oppressive society, the tyranny of a dictator and the serfdom of the individual. 

I'm not saying that Authoritarian Communism didn't have similarities to Fascism, I'm saying that Communism as a whole is largely unrelated (at least no more closely related than any other ideology)

Also, my original point still stands. StrawmanSlayer's foolish assertion that Communists, who by definition employ a planned economy that forbids private enterprise, end up in bed with private businesses is just that, foolish.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you and SocialistSlayer were specifically talking about Obama, not speaking in general about communists. Also, one can be a communist and still not outrightly abolish private enterprise through revolution. There is a progressive ideology that one can reach that ideal through incrementalism and not revolution. Even Marx said that an economy must be socialist before communism (state-less, pure egalitarianism) can be attained. It is logically consistent to say that Obama is a communist and his policies work toward communism (the ideal) without discretely reaching it (as if turning a switch.) For example, one can choose to cooperate with a certain portion of the private market with the ideal of destroying the market entirely, and then nationalizing it, effectively abolishing private ownership. 

Americans are funny.  In America Obama is left.  To the rest of the world he is extreme right.

Oh yes he is. All he wants is what the european conservatives want. For us europeans the difference between Obama and Romney is pretty small. And so they are placed on the compass. Remember the US is not the only country in the world.

Name: gooch_destroyer

Age: 22

Gender: male

What do you consider yourself: Indy

Your political compass results:

What I read here is: right wing people don't accept, that some people have an opinion that is more on the left spectrum. The simple point that people turn out on the bottom left here in this thread shows, that these different opinions exist. Accept that, people are different.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.12&soc=-7.33

Left libertarianism tends to support social systems such as healthcare and social security. I feel especially on the internet it is overshadowed by right libertarianism but left libertarianism does have a healthy school of thought and thinkers.