Philosophical Research:The new political compass

Find out what swatch color and philosophy tag you belong in here.

Quiz

The individual

What is more important, the society or the individual? Would you more quickly allow a society to die or a specific individual to die?

→ (pronounced →) We can never sacrifice the individual for society
→ (pronounced →) An individual. If there is no society the individual dies anyway

Government

Could you ever imagine a scenario where government is okay and useful?

→ (pronounced →) Yes, at least one
→ (pronounced →) Not really

Extremes

Do you think it can ever be good for people to hold extreme positions on issues?

→ (pronounced →) People are only extreme because they aren't reasonable
→ (pronounced →) I can think of at least one case

Voting

Could you ever imagine a single scenario, real or hypothetical, in which Liberal-republicanism exists and at least one policy you find favorable exists but it would not make sense to vote?

→ (pronounced →) Never. I would always vote
→ (pronounced →) Maybe. Possibly.

Assimilation

Do you think a nation-sized population of people has the right to take another population of people that exists inside it and tell it what language to speak, what general culture to have, or what religion to believe in?

→ (pronounced →) If you come to the United States you should believe in Jesus and speak English
→ (pronounced →) A nation should not assign people culture

Neutrality

Would you say that standing to the side or leaving the scene in a time of injustice is the same as aiding evil?

→ (pronounced →) Not helping to stop evil is evil
→ (pronounced →) He who turns and runs away lives to fight another day

Media representation

Is it good for the health of United States industry to have Black women, transgender people, and Arabs in media?

→ (pronounced →) Of course it is
→ (pronounced →) No

Information

Do you think it is possible the universe is fundamentally made of bits and bytes?

→ (pronounced →) The black hole information paradox means stars and planets are made of information
→ (pronounced →) The black hole information paradox means physical stuff goes into a black hole and becomes something unknown

Design

Do you think it is possible that living beings came into existence without any guiding intelligence designing them?

→ (pronounced →) Animals and humans likely came from un-guided evolution
→ (pronounced →) Humans must have been designed by a greater mind

The Trotskyite conspiracy

The year is 1935. You live in the Soviet Union. Your life and the lives of all your friends and family depend on the Soviet Union building industry without interference from the United States. Leon Trotsky has become convinced that Stalin's government has built the Soviet Union wrong and he cannot support the continued existence of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which he claims he would replace with a better Communist party. The world is full of First-World empires that would love to chop up the Soviet Union and liquidate its people into as small of units as possible for little other reason than to make their own countries more powerful. (Perhaps even to the point of breaking up Russia and trying to convince all of its regions they aren't Russian.) Will you allow Trotsky to attack the CPSU?

→ (pronounced →) Go ahead
→ (pronounced →) Absolutely not

Socialist market economy

The year is 2000. The Soviet Union has dissolved, in the process destroying many structural elements of the 14 Soviet cultures, leaving people hungry, destroying universal health care, and causing a significant exodus of Soviet nationalities moving to other countries and having to assimilate into their country cultures regardless of how toxic they may be. Nine years into all this, you see that China has created a "socialist market economy" in which it .

→ (pronounced →) That's a great outcome
→ (pronounced →) This is a betrayal of Marxism

Pandemic

The year is 2020. You live in the US state of Florida. The Democratic Party voter bases of the 49 other regions of the United States think governments have the right to tell business owners to require masks and social distancing. Some Democratic-Party voters are saying that making the whole country enforce disease prevention measures is simply "the most reasonable United States culture" and "common sense". There is some chance that an atheist wrote some of these policies. One of your relatives believes that vaccines are most likely either a plot to make people obedient or the literal tool of the antichrist to enslave all Christ believers. Will you tell everyone to obey mask mandates?

→ (pronounced →) I will tell everyone to wear masks for the next two years
→ (pronounced →) I won't stand for what the Democratic Party has done to this country
→ (pronounced →) I'd rather organize people together around freedom and friendship so no one needs any more government

Voter card for one Russian

The year is 19XX. You are a United States citizen. You live in a dystopian timeline where anyone in the United States can vote, but only if they fly over to another country and kill someone. If you bring back an ID card and an appropriate military member signs off on you having properly taken it through either violence or the enemy's surrender and not having taken any actions to undermine the system, you receive a voter license for the rest of your life. Voting brings the same benefits that it does in the real world: people can vote for universal health care, anti-discrimination laws, legalized abortion, same-sex marriage, gender transition on health insurance, gun control, an anti-racist state governor, national art grants for greater representation in media, and many other things. You are not required to vote, or to have a voting license. Would you kill a Russian in order to be able to vote?

→ (pronounced →) Send me to Russia
→ (pronounced →) I'm not casting a vote
→ (pronounced →) Can I rob a Russian at gunpoint and then vote to end the system?

Results

meta-Marxism

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is sometimes useful · Neutrality to the bourgeoisie or outdated theories of society aids the oppressor; neutrality to anything else is natural · Animals emerged through non-fabricated natural processes

mainstream Marxism-Leninism

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is useful · Neutrality to the bourgeoisie or outdated theories of society aids the oppressor · Animals emerged through non-fabricated natural processes

Maoism

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is useful · Neutrality to the bourgeoisie aids the oppressor · Animals emerged through non-fabricated natural processes

Deng Xiaoping Thought

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is useful · Neutrality is natural and the default · Animals emerged through non-fabricated natural processes

Trotskyism

Either the individual or society can be important · Government is sometimes useful, and sometimes wholly oppressive · Neutrality to the bourgeoisie, outdated theories of society, or socialism-in-one-country aids the oppressor; neutrality to the Cold War was natural · Animals emerged through non-fabricated natural processes

Gramscianism

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is useful · Neutrality to outdated theories of society aids the oppressor · Animals likely were not intelligently fabricated

Western Marxism, theorist unspecified

Either the individual or society can be important · Government is useful · Neutrality to the bourgeoisie aids the oppressor; neutrality to conflicts between "moderate" and "extreme" may be natural · Animals likely were not intelligently fabricated

anarchism

Either the individual or society can be important · Government is sometimes useful, but it is often a waste · Neutrality aids the majority oppressor; neutrality to conflicts between majorities is natural · Animals likely were not intelligently fabricated

postcolonial frameworks

Individuals are more important than the survival of a society · Government is sometimes useful, and sometimes wholly oppressive · Neutrality aids the majority oppressor · Animals likely were not intelligently fabricated

Existentialist-Structuralist ideology, specific tradition unspecified

Either the individual or society can be important · Government is sometimes useful, but mostly irrelevant to studying society · Neutrality aids the majority oppressor, but neutrality to conflicts between "moderate" and "extreme" may be natural · Animals likely were not intelligently fabricated

schizoanalysis

Individuals are more important than the survival of a society · Government is sometimes useful, but mostly irrelevant to studying society · Neutrality aids the majority oppressor; neutrality to conflicts between majorities is natural · Animals likely were not intelligently fabricated

Lacanianism

Individuals are more important than the survival of a society · Government is sometimes useful, but mostly irrelevant to studying society · Neutrality is natural and the default · If I believe in certain sects of Christianity, animals were designed

center-wing Liberal-republicanism

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is sometimes useful · Neutrality aids the majority oppressor, but neutrality to conflicts between "moderate" and "extreme" may be natural · If I believe in certain sects of Christianity, animals were designed; they most likely weren't

right-wing Liberal-republicanism

Individuals are more important than the survival of a society · Government is usually a waste · Neutrality is natural and the default · If I believe in certain sects of Christianity, animals were designed; they most likely weren't

Toryism

Either the individual or society can be important · Government is usually a waste · Neutrality aids the foreign oppressor; neutrality to domestic oppressors is natural · If I believe in certain sects of Christianity, animals were designed

fascism

Societies are more important than the individual · Government is usually a waste · Neutrality aids the foreign oppressor · If I believe in certain sects of Christianity, animals were designed