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What tendency/ideology do you best align with?

  • Anarchism

    Votes: 125 12.0%
  • Marxism

    Votes: 86 8.2%
  • Marxism-Leninism

    Votes: 79 7.6%
  • Left Communism

    Votes: 19 1.8%
  • Democratic Socialism

    Votes: 423 40.6%
  • Social Democracy

    Votes: 238 22.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 73 7.0%

  • Total voters
    1,043

samoyed

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
15,191
I wonder if it has to do with the money question. I put Neutral (or No Opinion or whatever it was) instead of agreeing/disagreeing that wages should be based on value rather than hours worked because...the point is to do away with wages. LTV doesn't describe how wages "should" be distributed, it describes how they ARE distributed.
I tried leaving everything blank except "Agree" on that and it gave 25% for mutualism and 20% for collectivist anarchism. "Disagree" gives you no weighting for any of them.
 

Shy

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
18,520
I got.

Your top ideologies are:
Classical Marxism 100%
Collectivist anarchism 70%
Marxist feminism 100%

Your worst ideologies are:
Anarcho-capitalism -80%
Paleoconservatism -90%
Paleolibertarianism -75%

Hmmmm. I didn't like some of the answers i gave.
 

House_Of_Lightning

Self-requested ban
Banned
Oct 29, 2017
5,048
What really confused me is that I would honestly label myself a statist and I gave a "slightly agree" answer to:

State involvement is needed to protect citizens' interests

With disagrees for:

State regulation of markets should be minimised
Government should only be involved in the administration of vital services like the police and fire services


So this is what being a sekirtsucc/statist is, right? Like I broadly think government is useful, I just want to decentralize it. I don't know how people got Marxism and why I didn't get it...


Yes. You're a liberal. That's only bad if you think liberals are shit.

;)
 

Juan29.Zapata

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,352
Colombia
This where we get surprised when House is actually the Fed closely observing us.

Anyway I got:

Collectivist anarchism 90%
Deep ecology 100%
Anarcha-feminism 100%

With my hated ideologies being:
Classical liberalism -80%
Fusionism -93%
Paleoconservatism -90%

I'm gonna start reading more on the ones I liked. Specially Anarcha-feminism. I had never heard about that one. I also have no idea wth is Fusionism, so I'm just gonna read a bit of a summary, so I'm not a complete illiterate heathen.
 

House_Of_Lightning

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Banned
Oct 29, 2017
5,048
Anarcha-feminism 50%
Individualist feminism 50%
Liberal democracy 50%
Marxist feminism 50%


Apparently I answered the one single question about women's rights correctly.
 

SaveWeyard

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
1,540
Top ideologies:
Anarcho-communism 100%
Classical Marxism 100%
Anarcha-feminism 100%
Individualist feminism 100%
Insurrectionary anarchism 100%
Queer anarchism 100%
Communalism 100%
Neozapatismo 100%
Marxist feminism 100%

Worst ideologies
Paleoconservatism -90%
Three Principles of the People -83%
Caliphate -100%
 

SaveWeyard

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
1,540
I think I just collected all the left anarcho/communist labels that the website had, lol. That quiz had some misleading questions based on the pros and cons listed underneath each.

Like them interchanging state and government depending on the question. Sometimes government meant state (wrong) and sometimes it just meant a system of governing.
 

Xiaomi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,237
Lol, took the quiz again trying to give the same answers and got a pretty extensive printout. I'm not sure if this is working correctly:

Top Ideologies:
Anarcho-syndicalism 100%
Classical Marxism 100%
Anarcha-feminism 100%
Green syndicalism 100%
Insurrectionary anarchism 100%
Communalism 100%
Neozapatismo 100%
Fourierism 100%
Marxist feminism 100%


Worst Ideologies:
Fusionism -100%
Paleoconservatism -100%
Three Principles of the People -100%
Caliphate -100%


Great to be living in Taiwan when you are 100% incompatible with the central philosophy of the KMT.
 

Xiaomi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,237
For all the faults of the KMT they didn't go down the trash can as fast as the CCP.

I dunno, the White Terror was a pretty public swan-dive into the trash can. That and all the ethnic nationalism and fascist tendencies. They climbed their way out like an inch at the end of the 80s, but I don't trust them at all. Not with Han "I will make Taiwan rich" Kuo Yu and not with Terry "Foxconn CEO" Gou getting the big push right now. Not that I really like the DPP either; they are making quick work of fucking over workers. The New Power Party is the closest to what I would support, but I can't even vote so lol.
 

Sibylus

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,728
Political horoscopes gonna horoscope, but I nonetheless appreciate having one that explains the poles on its questions rather than trying to divine intent.

Top
  • Classical Marxism (100%)
  • Anarcha-feminism (100%)
  • Marxist feminism (100%)

Nop
  • Fusionism (-86%)
  • Paleoconservatism (-100%)
  • Caliphate (-90%)
 

brainchild

Independent Developer
Verified
Nov 25, 2017
9,478
Top:

Anarcho-syndicalism 100%
Classical Marxism 100%
Green syndicalism 100%
Guild socialism 100%
Insurrectionary anarchism 100%
Communalism 100%


Worst:

Paleoconservatism -80%
Three Principles of the People -67%
Caliphate -80%




Not Bad
 

brainchild

Independent Developer
Verified
Nov 25, 2017
9,478
How are you guys getting so many ideologies ?

It might depend on how strongly you answer the questions.

I'm not getting Marxism or Feminism and this is challenging my personal identity.

The system is still flawed. The best way to do this would be to have a particular topic/issue, list of a bunch of different ideological responses to said issues, and then have the option to 'check all that apply'.
 

Deffers

Banned
Mar 4, 2018
2,402
Might as well write out my take on the coup here, as a Venezuelan:

-No fucking way this isn't US-backed.

-No fucking way Maduro didn't need to go.

-Guaido will have to work to be worse than Maduro was.

-Paramilitaries were already around as of years ago. They were not CIA-backed; they were fixers for Maduro and his cronies.

-In the short term, it'd require significant effort to make things worse for the average Venezuelan if it succeeds. In the long term Venezuela may forfeit its economic future, but that was already the case under Maduro.

-If it fails, I'm concerned about the level of violence Maduro will enact in retribution and what pretext that might give for direct intervention instead of US backing. Maduro's been pretty smart about keeping himself alive though, so the the hope in that scenario is he just does goddamn nothing. That might not mean much in the end though.

If you wanna believe I'm COINTELPRO for thinking that, go for it. I can't stop you. But the last goddamn thing you should do as a Socialist is support Maduro.
 

House_Of_Lightning

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Banned
Oct 29, 2017
5,048
Might as well write out my take on the coup here, as a Venezuelan:

-No fucking way this isn't US-backed.

-No fucking way Maduro didn't need to go.

-Guaido will have to work to be worse than Maduro was.

-Paramilitaries were already around as of years ago. They were not CIA-backed; they were fixers for Maduro and his cronies.

-In the short term, it'd require significant effort to make things worse for the average Venezuelan if it succeeds. In the long term Venezuela may forfeit its economic future, but that was already the case under Maduro.

-If it fails, I'm concerned about the level of violence Maduro will enact in retribution and what pretext that might give for direct intervention instead of US backing. Maduro's been pretty smart about keeping himself alive though, so the the hope in that scenario is he just does goddamn nothing. That might not mean much in the end though.

If you wanna believe I'm COINTELPRO for thinking that, go for it. I can't stop you. But the last goddamn thing you should do as a Socialist is support Maduro.


"US Out of Venezuela" and "Maduro Out of Venezuela" are not contradictory statements.
 

Deffers

Banned
Mar 4, 2018
2,402
"US Out of Venezuela" and "Maduro Out of Venezuela" are not contradictory statements.

Correct, and agreed. That would be the ideal. Unfortunately, the coup is happening right now. From what I can see, it's primarily driven by civilians. Engagements in Caracas after the initial firing of shots appear to be trending that way. If it fails it's gonna get worse for them.

If it fails and there is State terror you're gonna see a whole bunch of "Leftists" suddenly come out in support of State violence and cops.

There's already some almost getting there in the thread about it. That bit of things has been oddly exhausting.
 

Deffers

Banned
Mar 4, 2018
2,402
Is this an actual coup?

All I can find is the two arguing over Twitter saying that the military is their waifu.

Conflicting reports, but what we do have footage of is the civilians mobilizing. Currently trying to take an air force base in Caracas, the capital. You can tell they're legit since all they have is rocks. We also have footage of them stopping cops from arresting people, and an exchange of fire between Guaido's guys and Maduro's guys that was... odd, to say the least. Can't tell if they're firing their guns high because they're scared or because they're deliberately not trying to escalate things or because they're poorly trained or all of the above. Also got some pictures of wounded civilians. Most footage shows civilians marching close to the pro-Guaido troops. It's certainly not a country-wide uprising yet-- some states are pretty quiet, and I can get more direct confirmation from that since that's from my family. Others aren't. Police are responding with birdshot and tear gas, for the most part.
 

F34R

Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,987
GOOD
Anarcho-capitalism 90%
Free-market environmentalism 75%
Social democracy 75%

WORST
Deep ecology 33%
Odalism 17 %
Three principles of the People 17%
Strasserism 17%

Don't know how to take the results. Tried to answer as best I could. I'm a bad human?
 

samoyed

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
15,191
Don't know how to take the results. Tried to answer as best I could. I'm a bad human?
You skew libertarian, it is not flattering, though I don't think you're bad for it. It is a common consequence of being raised in the American political mindset.

Evidently you're a strong believer in markets and market-based solutions. There's lots of theoretical reasons why socialists detest markets but if you're not familiar with the theory you wouldn't see them as bad. It can be boiled down to this, the market is amoral and creates amoral outcomes so long as it meets some arbitrary non-humanitarian metric of "growth".
 

anthro

Member
Oct 28, 2017
420
I gotta stop lurking here. I peaked into the newest "is having a dragon horde immoral?" thread and just groaned.
 

samoyed

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
15,191
I gotta stop lurking here. I peaked into the newest "is having a dragon horde immoral?" thread and just groaned.
Yeah it's rough. I have regular identity crises here as well. It's hard to believe in the fundamental goodness of humanity when people rush to throw their fellow man under the bus for Porky.
 

samoyed

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
15,191
I'd rather not stir shit up in that thread so I'm going to tag you here, gutter_trash.
Far-Left people are so weird, complaining about Western intervention but keeping silent about Russian, Cuban and Chinese intervention
I can't vote in Russian or Chinese "elections". Being against Western intervention is accepting responsibility for the sins our society visited on others in the 20th century, particularly in LatAm, and making sure we don't repeat those sins.

The hope is that people, presumably living in Western democracies who understand English, will listen and agree and vote against harmful foreign intervention now and in the future.
 
Oct 27, 2017
12,238
I took the quiz because I like quizzes.

Your top ideologies are:

Anarcho-communism 93%
Classical Marxism 100%
Communalism 93%
Marxist feminism 100%



Your worst ideologies are:

Classical liberalism -90%
Fusionism -86%
Paleoconservatism -90%



I...honestly don't what most of these things are :S I admit I'm quite illiterate on socialism.
 
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Opto

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
4,546
So I'm seeing a bunch of DSA chapters tweet out support for Maduro and his government makes me wince. The 8 values quiz has me firmly Libertarian Socialist so it's not I don't line up with DSA but it just seems a super bad idea to ally yourself with the guy whose people are starving
 

Xiaomi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,237
Merry May Day for those of you in close enough longitudinal proximity to me to be on Wednesday. May baby Marx leave you a hammer and sickle under your festive cornstalks.