…is a complete and utter load of bollocks. It claims to have a method of portraying a person’s political position outside the narrow confines of ‘left’ and ‘right’. Nice idea. It asks a series of questions to which you reply that you “strongly disagree”, “disagree”, “agree” or “strongly agree”.
However just take the first question:
If globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations?
Sorry but my answer is both as that is a totally false dichotomy. Trade carried out by trans-national corporations does far more benefit than harm to ‘humanity’ (and we all know what that is a code word for… peasent farmers in Guatamala).
Or how about:
Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.
Again, a false dichotomy, so my answer is neither as unimpeded markets do both within the business cycle. The question also presupposes that either can be meaningfully ‘controlled’.
PoliticalCompass.org is just another group of flat-earth socialists using sloppy methodology to say nothing worthwhile about anything in particular. The questions are just a series of propositions based on a resolutely statist meta-contextual view of political dynamics. PoliticalCompass.org is not just irrelevant to libertarians, it is just plain irrelevant. I have no idea why worthy blogs like Andrew Sullivan and Daimnation give them the time of day. I guess they were slumming.
Tony Benn, who is an apologist for collectivist mass murderer Mao Tse-tung, is more ‘libertarian’ that Michael Portillo? These buffons do not know what ‘libertarian’ means. Also anarcho-syndicalism is not a form of libertarianism, it is a form of incoherent violence based communism. PoliticalCompass.org is a complete waste of pixels.
