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> left right axis is supposed to represent economics Most political compasses place the left right axis separate from the liberty/authoritarian axis. So the 't
by wutthe 5y ago
> left right axis is supposed to represent economics
Most political compasses place the left right axis separate from the liberty/authoritarian axis. So the 'top left' is 'authoritarian-left' and the bottom right is 'liberty-right'.
I think economics is represented across the entire surface of the compass, not just one axis or another. You might be liberty-left, for instance, and believe in some mixture of gift economies, communalism, etc.
- ralusek 5y agoIt's a fundamental flaw in the axes, though. There is no such thing as "lib-left," because the left economic wing is fundamentally authoritarian. You cannot have arbitrary distribution of resources without authoritarianism. The only way to make any sense of the political compass is to say that the vertical axis is authoritarian vs libertarian, and the left/right is egalitarian distribution (still authoritarian) vs libertarian (free markets). So the only true liberal/libertarian position is LibRight, but we accept LibLeft as "anti-authoritarian" because, while they're economically authoritarian, we've agreed to peel that off onto an independent axis.
- toiletfuneral 5y agoWhat’s economically authoritarian about workers democratically controlling more of their production? A bunch of lazy coke heads at banks chopping up and selling companies to squeeze out a few more dollars seems to be a much larger concentration of actual economic power than any trade union