http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Find out were you stand on a 2D poltical spectrum test, a little bit better then a standard right/left test but still leaves alot to be desired.

Please post your results: here are mine:

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

Sadly I'm not quite as good as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or the dalai lama, though one must wonder how they got their test results.

There are too many issues where I do not have adequate experience or knowledge about to make a true and decisive stand. Personally, I know myself to be a 100% liberal on social issues, and really, that's all I can be certain about. But I also know myself to be a pragmatist. I have little patience for inflexible ideologues and "holier-than-thou" types.

According to this test, I'm about centre of the bottom left quadrant. I'm not so sure this correctly reflects my left vs. right views (I'm closer to the centre, I think), but the libertarian slant is accurate enough.

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

go me :P

although i dont trust this chart - assuming the closer (in distance) the dots are, the more similar the people are then;
stalin is closer to ghandi then thatcher
hitler is closer to thatcher then stalin

which doesnt make sense to me

I landed right on top of George Bush. How boring. But the amusing impression that I'm left with is that probably about 3 credible people in the whole of history fit into that bottom left quadrant, yet the majority the pop-intellectual uni-campus dwellers that love to share their opinions and pollute internet forums across the world would all fit there. Oh the tyranny of idealism over the modern mind

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

I think its telling that Bush, Berlisconi, Sharone, and Hitler all are in the same quadrant.

Vlad,

Yes and did you notice all the evil people tend to be really authoritarian, just like you! :D

y'all are in the extremes.

Economic Left/Right: 0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.44

closest to Gerhard Schroeder. how nice.
i wonder who got to evaluate all these world leaders (i doubt they took the poll) b/c i strongly disagree with some evaluations

hehe, I am almost the dali lama =]

Vlad,

Yes and did you notice all the evil people tend to be really authoritarian, just like you! :D

I did notice. But I'm disapointed to learn that Sharon is more right-wing than me..I pride myslf of meing more right-wing than everyone.

otheadp,

Yes I also question where the hell they got the test results on those world leaders!

Hmm, I am between Ghandi and Nelson Mandela... I do not think so...

Amazing, everybody’s an extremist.