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24 questions: are you a communist
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Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
And Left-wing/right-wing came out of the French Revolution. Libertarianism grew out of Classic Liberalism, but they are not the same. Sort of like how we grew out of earlier members of the homo genus, but we definitely are not Homo Habilis.
Libertarianism (both social & economic liberty) still came first,
before the Frog Revolution. Prefix type (eg, "left") libertarianism
(which allows only social liberty, but wants economic authoritarianism)
is both later & false. To ban free economic association is not liberty.
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Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
Your own source says otherwise.
You misread it.
Check the timeline.
Libertarianism pre-dated the faux kind by over a century.
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
Communism Test
Your Communism score is:
Your personal agreement with communism is low, indicating that you support few of communism’s principles as presented in classical Marxian literature. You most likely believe in the necessity of private property and private business, as well as the right to free economic association and individually-controlled production. You most likely also believe that individuals are more motivated by the prospect of personal gain than by serving the needs of some amorphous social group (such as “society”) that the individual perhaps never asked to be a part of.
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Your Communism score is:
Your personal agreement with communism is low, indicating that you support few of communism’s principles as presented in classical Marxian literature. You most likely believe in the necessity of private property and private business, as well as the right to free economic association and individually-controlled production. You most likely also believe that individuals are more motivated by the prospect of personal gain than by serving the needs of some amorphous social group (such as “society”) that the individual perhaps never asked to be a part of.
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Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
That statement conflicts with the timeline though.
Your personal agreement with communism is low, indicating that you support few of communism’s principles as presented in classical Marxian literature. You most likely believe in the necessity of private property and private business, as well as the right to free economic association and individually-controlled production. You most likely also believe that individuals are more motivated by the prospect of personal gain than by serving the needs of some amorphous social group (such as “society”) that the individual perhaps never asked to be a part of.
Yay. Learning things you already knew about yourself is so...something.
Although I don't really agree with the last sentence. It makes capitalists sound evil.
GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
I got 21%. I think that's a reasonable result, since the test confines itself strictly to core Marxist beliefs. Some many people here (or rather there, in the USA) think anyone to the left of the US Republicans is a communist!
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
No, it doesn't, because Classic Liberalism came before Libertarianism, something the Wiki page does support. Libertarianism came after that.
Classical liberalism is the origin of libertarianism,
& barely distinguishable from it.
RF definitions get classical liberalism wrong by
equating it with conservatism. But hey the rules
serve purposes inscrutable to us little people.
I faltered at the first question: There should be no such thing as private ownership of businesses.
There is in truth no such thing as private ownership. We have illusion of ownership.
While I'm not a Marxist by any account (although, I do respect many of the valuable insights from his dissection of capitalism in Das Kapital, even as I often find myself disagreeing with his prescriptions for solving the defects he recognises), I'm a bit of a libertarian socialist (a la Murray Bookchin), combined with market socialism and social democracy / Nordic free-market model.
Market socialism | economics
As such, I often find these kind of algorithms have a rather hard time placing me on the political spectrum, as I don't easily align with either side of the "Communist collectivist-statist" vs "capitalist libertarian-individualist" dichotomy. My political beliefs are much too nuanced, as I'm sure is the case with many other posters here as well.
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Your personal agreement with communism is moderate, indicating that you support some of communism’s basic principles as put forth by the classical Marxian literature. While you most likely agree with certain communist doctrines, such as the reduction of inequalities and a certain skepticism towards the free market, you most likely also find that other features of communism go a step too far towards collectivized power and control. You also might have noticed that your degree of agreement with communism has fluctuated across your lifetime in accordance with your self-perceived status at various points in your life.
Next time we meet the police will be tailing us.
Your personal agreement with communism is moderate, indicating that you support some of communism’s basic principles as put forth by the classical Marxian literature. While you most likely agree with certain communist doctrines, such as the reduction of inequalities and a certain skepticism towards the free market, you most likely also find that other features of communism go a step too far towards collectivized power and control. You also might have noticed that your degree of agreement with communism has fluctuated across your lifetime in accordance with your self-perceived status at various points in your life.
Moderate? There's hope for you yet @Laika...
I did the test four times until I was comfortable. It swung from 60-80% depending on how cautious I was.
Being a little dangerous just makes me more handsome and sexy.
My views are similarly complex by the black/white standards many like. But I answered the questions accepting the frame of reference of those who drew them up just for fun.
