(2004-07-26) Anti Political Compass

Some Samizdata writing anti the Political Compass. Although they claim to provide a more sophisticated representation of political views than the crudity of left and right, they in fact strip away some of the true issues that differentiate statists and anti-statists. At best they differentiate one form of statist from another, separating social democrats from communists from conservatives. If you think you can usefully differentiate an Agorist or Anarcho Capitalist Libertarian from a Minarchist libertarian from a Kritarchist libertarian using the political compass tests, you are sadly mistaken.