I don't think this test is all that accurate given the nature of the questions asked.Not possible. You're either a shade authoritarian or a shade libertarian, or you're a dead-on centerist ... but on that chart you cannot be an "authoritarian/libertarian". The Nolan Chart shows me as a slightly right of center libertarian.
I took it. I'm a borderline center-right authoritarian/libertarian. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
Suffice to say , Hitler was not a modern day progressive liberal as JD tried to equate!The left-wing/right-wing matrix doesn't work well for describing Hitler, whereas the authoritarian/libertarian matrix does. Per the Political Compass site:
Hitler was a racial Fascist.
. Originally Posted by WTF
"[W]e demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.
"The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy).
"Once you accept that left and right are merely measures of economic position, the extreme right refers to extremely liberal economics that may be practised by social authoritarians or social libertarians.
"Similarly, the extreme left identifies a strong degree of state economic control, which may also be accompanied by liberal or authoritarian social policies."
