>>119883281I agree, the Political Compass is an abstract and oversimplified model. Some have tried to remedy it by adding more dimensions, but that really only bogs it down further. It's not even that good as a personality test both due to the "grimness" of the topic giving it a false sense of seriousness and also because sometimes, it feels like people choose the answers based more on what alignment they already see themselves as over answering the questions sincerely.
> it also sneakily associates nazism with libertarianism, separates it from communismI don't understand this critique, however. In what way does the test association Nazism with libertarianism, other than placing both ideologies in "right-wing"? Communism is still associated with Nazism then, because both are placed in "authoritarian". Most political compass charts I've seen also place Nazism as "centre auth" instead of "right-wing auth", which is usually occupied by monarchists, theocrats or Pinochet.
>and perpetuates the lie of "left libertarianism"Left libertarianism is older than the current form of libertarianism, which is effectively unregulated capitalism. It competed directly with orthodox Marxism and social democracy over which ideology will become the heart of the left-wing movement.
The term "libertarian communism" debuted in November 1880 by an anarchist congress in France, long before H. L. Mencken and Albert Jay Nock used the word as a synonym for "liberal", or before Ayn Rand published The Fountainhead in 1943 - of course, not to say that Ayn Rand agreed completely with libertarianism. Even before that, Joseph Déjacque (an anarcho-communist) described himself as a "libertarian" in an 1857 letter.