How far right are you?

[Eddie Teach]

Course, it'd be possible to disagree on 3/4 of the items and both get that score.

[katmai]

[Berkut]

Wow, we are all mostly right about the same spot.

[Agelastus]

At first I thought "pretty much the same as last time" and that this is a result of my holding such a ragbag of opinions across the scale.

Then I realised I was closer in my position to the SNP than any other British political party.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015

[Ideologue]

This test is kind of dumb.  Apparently you can answer "eugenics for all," "executions are rad," "surveil everything," and "collectivize the land" and still be "libertarian."

[Ed Anger]

I'm Hitler according to the quiz I didn't take.

[The Brain]

This test is kind of dumb.  Apparently you can answer "eugenics for all," "executions are rad," "surveil everything," and "collectivize the land" and still be "libertarian."

Well libertarians are pretty hated.

[Ideologue]

 

[Eddie Teach]

This test is kind of dumb.  Apparently you can answer "eugenics for all," "executions are rad," "surveil everything," and "collectivize the land" and still be "libertarian."

You're not though, you basically are scoring as a "centrist" on that axis.

[celedhring]

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015

So Labour are a right-wing authoritarian party according to that test?   

[The Larch]

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015

So Labour are a right-wing authoritarian party according to that test?   

They blame that to Blair's New Labour in the text. Then again it's kinda ridiculous, to them every single British party except for two are authoritarian, and all the big ones are right wing.



Checking their scores for the candidates for the US presidency in the last elections and of the different governments of EU countries in 2012 they seem to have a "everybody is a right wing authoritarian" schtick".

[Admiral Yi]

They are a left version of Siege. 

[Eddie Teach]

Yet most of the forum is in the opposite quadrant. 

[mongers]

I'm as far right as Harold Wilson was and as far left as Ted Heath. 

[Razgovory]

Huh. Any right wingers want to comment on this?

The only way it makes the remotest bit of sense to me is if you spin opposition to equality of outcome as preservation of hierarchy.

...which would be, of course, idiotic.

Any "definition" that those who actually claim to hold to reject is a crappy definition, in general. And specifically as it regards to any attempt to actually have a discussion, it is definitely worse than useless.

It's what is found in Political science text books.  In American rightwing thought this manifests as the freedom to rise higher then your fellows by working hard or being smart (or just being born rich).  The hierarchy is one social one with only indirect power.  The power is typically money.  A rich man can't command a poor person to do something but is wealth brings him benefits and social status.