sbirdJan 26

If a multi-dimensional political compass existed, how many dimensions would it have? What would be those dimensions?

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If a multi-dimensional political compass existed, how many dimensions would it have? What would be those dimensions? - Sopuli

You have the “1D” political compass of left vs right, but those terms are so broad they can describe completely opposite viewpoints. Then there’s the “2D” political compass with authoritarian/libertarian and the classic left/right, but that is still quite broad and doesn’t fit every ideology and belief well. If someone were to create a fully fleshed out N-dimensional political compass that could accurately summarise a person’s political perspective, how many axes are needed, and what would they be? Of the top of my head, I can think of a few: - authoritarian vs anti-authoritarian (on the extremes, you would have dictator bootlickers who support a one-rules-all style system and anarchists advocating for no authority at all) - internationalism vs nationalism - egalitarianism vs traditionalism (social equality vs hierarchal society) - environmentalist vs anti-environmentalist - progressive vs conservative (or pro-change vs anti-change) - intellectualism vs anti-intellectualism (pro-science vs anti-science)

Show threadKristellJan 26

I’d say a 3D one is good for most cases. Personal freedom, economic freedom, and political freedom, AKA the NationStates Non-Political compass.

Functionally, though, while it’s an easy visual I don’t necessarily know how useful political compasses are in general. One of my main gripes with the currently popular one is that it’s personal+economic freedom, and I don’t think there should be an economy at all. I end up very lib left on it (something like -8,-8 or -9,-9) despite, again, not thinking economy is something that should even exist. Would that lean me more right on the economy, or left? Who’s to say! You’re not economically free if there is none, but also you’re as economically free as you want to be!

Show threadpositiveWHATJan 26
If you don’t want an economy (money) to balance resources, how would you do it?
Show threadKristell
Based on need. Money (broadly) doesn’t do a great job at balancing resources, and while based on needs gets difficult when resources are scarce, America (at least) relies on overproduction anyway, so we do have the resources in a lot of key areas. Enough food is thrown away to feed all of the hungry, we have more empty homes than homeless people, unused clothing is thrown away end masse, etc etc, without even getting into how a lot of things are designed to be disposable that really don’t need to be.
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Show threadpositiveWHATJan 27
Yeah, that idea is left authoritarian. For it to work you have to take things from the owners.