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Old 03-18-2016, 06:57 PM
 
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Interesting. I am in the same place except a tiny bit to the left.

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Yeah, I've pretty much reached enlightenment.


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Old 03-18-2016, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Houston
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I am always placed right with Friedman. Makes sense he is my strongest influence.
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Old 03-19-2016, 03:08 AM
 
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I love where Hillary lands on this -- in the authoritarian right quadrant, where she belongs -- the Republican candidates are all scrunched up in the upper corner of that quadrant. Bernie is the only one not it it, but even he is on the line of authoritarianism and libertarian.

I'm pretty much in the center of the left libertarian quadrant, which is not as far left as I used to score when I took this test 10 years ago. I guess it's true what they say ... you do become more conservative as you age. Where I once was a Marxist, now I'm just a socialist to the left of Bernie.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/you...-6.5&soc=-6.51

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Old 11-17-2016, 08:08 PM
 
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Income equality is a huge communist idea. :-)
Actually, not it's not. A reasonably result in a Marxist society would be less income inequality, but that specifically is not actually terribly important to a Marxist. Class equality is more important and "income" isn't necessarily the means of bringing that. This is why Marxist theory is more concerned with the means of production rather than income. Income is just money, but the means of production has with it status and power. The idea Marx was going for what that when the means of production are established equally among the public, that status and power is dissolved creating a classless society. People would not necessarily all have the same amount of things, as is often the meme attributed to communism.

Income equality is more related to social liberals and the theories of John Rawls. The concept of an "income" is not really easily transferable to a communist society. Socialists can adopt it, but even then, a socialist is technically arguing that the means of production should be socially owned, which still means that the exact nature of income inequality isn't really what they're specifically targeting as to a socialist, income is not necessarily the largest factor in determine class. In a capitalist society however, it is the most dominant (though not the only one), which is why social liberals champion the issue.
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Old 11-17-2016, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: 6.13

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28

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Old 11-17-2016, 08:29 PM
 
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Deep purple for me.
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