What is your political ideology? EDITED

[reverendjeremiah]

Ever since I took that political test, it got me thinking. It got me thinking that this test made way more sense than a one dimensional "left/right" political litmus test. I started thinking about it and realized that it was a great idea that the inventor of this test broke it down into two dimensions. But I came across problems with the titles used for the grid. Its only four names; "Left, Right, Authoritarian, Libertarian". I do not think it is enough. I started to chop the box up and did a good ten hours of websearching to find political/economic philosophies that were MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE to each other so as to help with the distinctions between each sector and slice. I have broken this square up into 13, yes THIRTEEN mutually exclusive definitions that you can superimpose on top of this political test that you have taken. The simplistic "left/right" has been replaced with the much more descriptive terms "Collectivism/Individualism".

*NOTE* - Please forgive the quality of the image I have included, as my Flash program is currently down right now and I drew this really quick in "paint" *

Here are what the numbers represent:
#1 - Communism
#2 - Authoritarianism
#3 - Corporatism
#4 - Individualism
#5 - Anarchism
#6 - Voluntaryism
#7 - Socialism
#8 - Collectivism
#9 - Urbanism
#10 - Ruralism
#11 - Imperialism
#12 - Nationalism
#13 - Centrism

Let me know what you think. Please look up the difinitions of each terminiology and compare them and check that they are mutually exclusive to each other. PLEASE let me know if you disagree and if you have better terminology available. I plan on making a much more presentable table as soon as I fix my computer and get my Flash studio up and working. Any suggestions and corrections would be appreciated. If you like what I have done, give me encouragement.

Another thing I have thought about: Atheism and theism, although they are mutually exclusive, can cover ALL points of the square. In other words you can stack it as a "third dimension". So you can have a theistic communism, and an atheistic imperialism, or an atheistic rural (tribalistic) system or a theistic Urban society.. even though it has usually been done historically and popularly in the opposite way. Religion or non-religon merely being a tool to control the minds of those according to whatever the political/economic winds blow in favor of or for...yes, the soviets used atheism to control the populations who were pissed at the Czars who used religious right to control and ruin the populations.

CENTRISM - The size of the circle for centrism would depend on the amount of people plus the amount of land mass involved in said economic/political system discussed. So in the case of America, South America, and Greater Asia/Russia, and Africa there would be decent amounts of centrists who prefer to just move in whatever works for them. On smaller land mass vs. population ratios such as Iceland you would have a much smaller percentage of centrists as the before mentioned. Example: America has quite a few of Centrists (making its number 13 circle much bigger than normal) because it is a federally controlled and very huge land mass, where as Iceland would have a majority of people located near number 7 on the political map, and the circle of centrists would be of a much smaller circumference.

ELITISM - I have also found that Elitism can be superimposed as a "third dimension" on this square, where those on the collectivism and the Individualism sides of the "left right" spectrum can elevate those who are intelligent and/or rich to leadership positions. In other words, the word "elitism" is not owned by any specific political philosophy.