Political Compass

I'm trying to get a reasonable estimate for the political compass in an international sense. The examples commonly given only include EU and US so many people don't have a good perspective for how different things could be. So far I've compiled the average of what I found on google and this is what I got. Its a little fudged to make it so you can see all the names without overlap.

What else would you include and where would you put it? What would you remove? Are there any well known philosophers or current countries that I could replace less known or country specific politicians? What is iconic that people will know about?

After its finished I'm going to clean it up and link the names to wiki entries in a pastebin and a google doc so it can be used for re-education.

politicalcompass.org/crowdchart?Jefferson=2.0,-4.0&Rucker=-4.0,-10.0&Proudhon=0.0,-10.0&Saudi=3.0,7.0&Pakistan=-3.0,2.0&China=-2.0,5.0&Russia=1.0,4.0&Mandela=-6.0,-5.0&Mugabe=-5.0,6.0&Vietnam=-8.0,2.0&Gandhi=-6.0,-3.0&Friedman=5.0,-3.0&Reagan=8.0,7.0&Rothbard=9.0,-9.0&Marxism=-10.0,-6.0&Chomsky=-8.0,-10.0&Luxemburg=-10.0,-2.0&Trotsky=-10.0,0.0&Lenin=-10.0,3.0&Mao=-10.0,5.0&Stalin=-8.0,9.0&Hitler=3.0,9.0&Castro=-5.0,3.0&Rand=10.0,-7.0&Stein=-3.0,-2.0&Sanders=-5.0,0.0&Paul=9.0,-4.0&Johnson=10.0,-2.0&Obama=3.0,2.0&Bush=6.0,4.0&Pinochet=10.0,10.0&Trump=6.0,6.0&name=Washington&ec=1&soc=-2

make your own: politicalcompass.org/crowdchart?showform

Bush (6.0,4)
Castro (-5.0,3)
China (-2.0,5)
Chomsky (-8.0,-10)
Friedman (5.0,-3)
Gandhi (-6.0,-3)
Hitler (3.0,9)
Jefferson (2.0,-4)
Johnson (10.0,-2)
Lenin (-10.0,3)
Luxemburg (-10.0,-2)
Mandela (-6.0,-5)
Mao (-10.0,5)
Marxism (-10.0,-6)
Mugabe (-5.0,6)
Obama (3.0,2)
Pakistan (-3.0,2)
Paul (9.0,-4)
Pinochet (10.0,10)
Proudhon (0.0,-10)
Rand (10.0,-7)
Reagan (8.0,7)
Rothbard (9.0,-9)
Rucker (-4.0,-10)
Russia (1.0,4)
Sanders (-5.0,0)
Saudi (3.0,7)
Stalin (-8.0,9)
Stein (-3.0,-2)
Trotsky (-10.0,0)
Trump (6.0,6.0
Vietnam (-8.0,2)
Washington (1.0,-2)

Other urls found in this thread:

quora.com/What-are-the-worlds-left-wing-and-right-wing-countries/answer/Abhimanyu-Pallavi-Sudhir
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

How the hell are Pakistan and China leftist? Why is Vietnam further to the left than Castro? Why isn't a single Marxist located anywhere near Marxism? Why is Stalin like twice as authoritarian as Mugabe or Mao? How is Stalin less Leftist than Lenin when he went full planned economy and murdered the entire petite-bourgeoisie whilst Lenin allowed some compromise in the form of the NEP? How is Leon "Kronstadt" Trotsky about as democratic as Sanders? Seriously, what the fuck.

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Was Trotsky more lib than Lenin? As lib as Sanders? If we're looking at people's policies, then Lenin should probably be a bit more right due to the NEP. It might also help to have some people mark the far sides and corners, sort of like you've already done with Trotsky and Pinochet, so you can more easily measure the others (you more lib than Trotsky and more left than Proudhon, you're lib-left).

The political compass itself doesn't really tell you much. Labels like "left' and "right" or "Libertarian"and Authoritarian" are very broad. Mao being displayed as slightly more authoritarian as Lenin doesn't really tell me about the life or politics of either figure.

Some of these placements are just weird as well. Modern Vietnam, China and Pakistan aren't really leftist at all. How is Russia to the left of Obama and less authoritarian than Trump or Reagan? Saudi Arabia is probably the most authoritarian country on the list. Washington isn't much of a libertarian he personally crushed the whisky rebellion, owned slaves and was controlled by the federalists. You can go on and on…

Into the trash it goes.

What shitposting thread on Holla Forums did you find those in?

idk user thats what the google had them as.

I thought the Pakistan was odd too.

I heard here on leftypol that Vietnam was successfully communist?? Cuba is the same. Isn't China centrally planned? Or is it basically USA 2.0? I'd imagine the Mugabe stuff is revisionism but I cant find anything that puts him somewhere else.

This chart gave me cancer.

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