Where do you fall on the political spectrum?

[StarfarerBill]

If you had to categorize yourself politically, what would you say? And by this I don't mean just a generic descriptor (liberal, moderate, Democrat, Green, etc.), but also whatever shading or degree you feel best represents your ideas.

I'll start by describing myself as a Debsian socialist.

A request: I'm asking this out of a genuine curiosity for the range of beliefs here in DU, not to start a flame war; so please, just talk about yourself.

[FLAprogressive]

1. Left-libertarian

[XemaSab]

2. I suppose I would call myself a progressive

but on some things I am libertarian-leaning and on some things I am more of a socialist. :shrug:

[GliderGuider]

3. I grew up in a Canadian socialist household (CCF/NDP)

But 50-mumble years on, I'm a "communitarian anarchist". Politics is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[rucky]

4. I dig that - Debsian Socialist

Permission to steal - er - share?

Otherwise a straight-up Marxist into Scandonavian-style Democracy. But that sounded more like a personals ad than a political thing.

[StarfarerBill]

12. No permission necessary.

I stole it myself, so you're more than welcome to share. :)

[rug]

22. I'm a thespian myself.

[Odin2005]

5. Left-Libertarian

[MisterP]

6. Western Marxist, like Marcuse nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Way left and halfway to the bottom of the Political Compass's lower left quadrant.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Thanks for posting that again

I think I'm even more left libertarian than I was the last time I took it.

Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

[Broken_Hero]

8. On the left, no idea where....

:shrug:

Many RW's think I'm a social/LW nut job, but I have no idea where I fall on the spectrum, especially by DU standards.

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. The sword part. Time and time again. n/t

[Unvanguard]

10. Hardcore radical leftist, but pragmatic-minded. n/t

[Barack_America]

24. I think that's where I fall too.

I'm pretty far left personally, but recognize the reality of having to work with those who do not share my ideology.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Anarchist - aka Left-Libertarian

"Freedom is the absolute right of all adult men and women to seek permission for their actions only from their own conscience and reason, and to be determined in their actions only by their own will, and consequently to be responsible only to themselves, and then to the society to which they belong, but only insofar as they have made a free decision to belong to it." Mikhail Bakunin

[StarfarerBill]

13. Thanks to everyone who's participated in my informal survey so far.

I hope to see more folks chime in.

[Brickbat]

14. Syndicalist.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. I **used** to think I was a moderate liberal

The problem is, the country has moved so far to the right, that now I'm wack-job far lefty.

I'm betting there are lots of people to the left of me ....... I hope!

I also admit to getting more liberal as I get older.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. left-libertarian, here.

:hi:

[ohheckyeah]

17. So far left I make

Ghandi look like a conservative. :-)

[Kaleva]

18. I almost always score as a moderate/centrist/realist .

[justabob]

19. anti-fascist is the best word/phrase I have come up with

Basically left libertarian, but not quite an anarchist. According to Political Compass I fall in the very bottom left corner (-8.5,-7.5 roughly). I haven't really ever found a good way to describe my politics, except to say anti-fascist. :)

[anonymous171]

20. "Longian" Leftist.

I model my views after Huey Long. My leftism is based on the Bible and common sense, not Marxism. I believe that politics is a game that must be played for the benefit of the working man. If we lose we die, if we refuse to play, then we also die. We need to win and enslave the parasite class via taxes and regulation. There is no alternative. The rich must either "Share the Wealth" or face the consequences.


I am pretty isolationist on foreign policy. I am not particularly concerned with social policy, although I do believe that everyone has civil rights, including gays and that everyone has a right to quality healthcare, including women.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Left Libertarian, I believe.

I was over by the Dalai Lama on that chart we all did a couple years ago.

[snailly]

25. I don't know anymore. I'm just me.

[HughMoran]

26. Liberal

No right-wing republican or lefty "progressive" is going to redefine that term for me. Liberals are for civil rights. Liberals are for freedom of speech. Liberals are anti-war. Liberals are for socialist-leaning reforms. Liberals are for progress. Period.

[pipoman]

27. I have always visualized

a continuum with Marx on the far left and Hitler on the far right...I find myself in the middle...more left than right middle..I consider myself a progressive realist civil libertarian. :)

[Midwestern Democrat]

28. Liberal leaning populist. NT

[mdmc]

29. intellectual liberal

socialist progressive

[StarfarerBill]

30. What the hey...if you've taken the Political Compass test, post your results here, too!

That's a fair indicator of your beliefs, as well.

Thanks to everyone who've already posted their results; wish I'd thought of it when I first made up this survey. :)

My results are:
Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.41

That puts me waaaaaay down in the lower-left corner.

[Kaleva]

31. Economic Left/Right: -1.12,Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.77

[a la izquierda]

32. Here's where I stand

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

I'm farther to the bottom left than Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

[dysfunctional press]

33. i don't do labels.

but- i'm definitely of a liberal mindset,
and the way i describe my political views on my facebook page is: "to the left of yours"