The Political Compass
What does it mean and the example of an International Political Compass, for starters:




There's abundant evidence for the need of it. The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left' , established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ?

here are my results:

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44
(no actual chart to post :-( I'm in the lower left corner of the square which makes me a Libertarian Leftist (jeez...) in fact, I'm Gandhi (jeeeeeez...)

Take the (serious, no nonsense) test and be prepared for a lot of information that I meselfa am always lacking, being no party animal whatsoever in this respect :-|

And here's the Website featured entertainment piece (serious as it is):

The Composers' Political Compass:

(Woody Allen quipped that every time he heard Wagner, he was overcome with the urge to invade Poland. The positions of most others are less clear in their work, although we can hear the difference between the assertive nationalism of Wagner and the gentle folk nationalism of Dvorák or Grieg. In the case of opera, of course, there are more clues. Mozart's, for example, dealt with class war (The Marriage of Figaro) and the liberal values of the Enlightenment. Biographies often provide helpful political information as well. Some composers, like Bartók, were known to have championed the underdog and sometimes clashed with the authorities as a result. Others, like Stravinsky, Mascagni and Puccini, enthusiastically embraced fascism. Still others, like Smetana and Tchaikovsky, were tolerant individualists who kept their distance from mass movements. Because of the relative paucity of information, our composers' political chart is largely for amusement. People like Schubert, Bach, Debussy and Donizetti, who don't seem to have left any hints of their politics, have been left out altogether.)


[obrigada ao Miguel :-D