The TRUE political compass
Slide from my government class where Bernie Sanders is more left wing than China, Pinochet is extreme right wing authoritarian and Milton Friedman is a sweet right wing libertarian despite advising and defending Pinochet. Obama is more authoritarian and right wing than Washington as well.
Still remember the one professor who tried to argue with me about horseshoe theory
Tried to say that the gulags were just as bad as the concentration camps
When I pointed out that the gulags were prisons and not death camps, he said the result was the same
Suffice to say, I didn't get A's that semester
It is funny how the occupancy and the death rate of the gulags declined after the US-supported (US literally invaded Russia to help him out) Tsar was defeated. It only went back up when it started filling up with literal Nazis.
"Hitler was a centrist"
I love how the definition of a moderate is always so funny. The ideology is "negotiating on immigration policy". Biden is negotiating on immigration policy right now, that makes him a moderate by definition on that issue! Does he want that immigration policy more left-wing or right-wing than the status quo? Doesn't matter! All that matters is the process of negotiation and the outcome is moderation!
Haha man, whatever 14 year old made this is going to feel as silly about it in the future as he is proud in the present
Slide from my government class
I like how far this thing has to stretch to make libertarians (the bottom right quandrant) into something that actually exists instead of bow-tie nerds fantasizing about utopia. Over on the right you've got Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard. A bunch of electoral failures, a lady whose books are drivel, and a contrarian academic who said child slavery should exist. Ok cool.
And they're equated on this chart with Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Nelson Mandela, people who actually did things and governed countries. Libertarians are such a joke. Their only success is Javier Milei in Argentina and he instantly because a standard right-winger upon taking office, whoops.
Obama being exactly as right wing as Hitler lol
Comrade civics teacher
Actually no, I think he's a fucking Nazi. I just noticed that, and it puts Hitler as a centrist. That's actually half the reason people post political compass bullshit. So they can say Hitler is not on the right. The fact that he put Hitler here himself means he's a fucking freak.
OP please Google your teacher's name real hard
this is taught in classes now?
Yes.
I've seen worse.
I can't imagine why Americans have political beliefs that are equivalent to "just give me the sampler pack"
No Homer, you've got the royal sampler!
Gandhi left of Castro 💀
I like how some of those listed are people, some are entire countries.
Nothing says political literacy like Great Man of History splaining along with just slapping countries on the board.
China and Marxism and Obama, oh my!
I'm always surprised that Mao is out at less "authoritarian" than Stalin. On what basis do libs make that distinction?? Is the Leap Forward seen as libertarian or something? Just nonsense lol
All vibes based, one's Y position in the chart seems to be mostly a function of how many times the liberals making it have heard you called an authoritarian in the news
I think this is the correct response lol. There might be some reasons that it's used more for Stalin than Mao (likely because Stalin was a much more widely adored figure around the Imperial core than Mao ever was). But libs don't know that
They think Stalin killed everyone and sent them to Siberia
It is not a crazy thing to say. Mao had fundamental disagreements with Stalin and was frequently worried that the party would become dogmatic and lose revolutionary fervor. That was the point behind the Cultural Revolution after all. Mao experimented with new forms of governance and codified New Democracy. He ended up often cracking down on the movements he allowed when things got messy, but he was always trying to encourage radicalism within the PRC.
It's hard to say, but I think that you can make an argument with Mass Line and his tendency for Campaigns where he just kind of nebulously encouraged people to do this and that. I don't think they are talking about re-education during the Cultural Revolution or anything like that.
Yeah if you can convince yourself that Stalin is uniquely authoritarian compared to capitalist leaders, Mao would likewise be targeted by every criticism one could make from that angle. Really strange
this is one of those outrageously bad cooking videos designed for hate watchers to engage, but at least those videos make money for the people who make them
Nothing says liberty and freedom like owning slaves.
Moderate libertarian Proudhon
Oh look, it's me, the one true leftist
Sees pakistan
Laughs.
Although bush being to the right of russia is funny, and saudis being same as obama
Your teacher is dumb I'm sorry
Mother fuckers put "Marxism" as a person. also the fuck is Mugabe doing there? I have a lot of respect for Mugabe especially early on, but the placement is strange
Trump, Bush, and Reagan are all more conservative than Saudi Arabia. Lmao wut.
so wild to put people places and ideological systems on the same graph like yea these are the same things
Politically, I consider myself an Example.
I could see this but only if you mix economic and social issues.
Bernie should be closer to the center but I can see how China from whenever this was made could be argued to be conservative with social liberities.
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TIL Castro was only as far left as Bernie, and Gandhi was more left wing than either of them
Is this a high school class or secondary education? Either way it's concerning that this is passing as education.
Bernie to the left of China lmao
China is to the right of Milei few are ready to understand this
Also four (five? which fucking "Johnson" are they referring to, there's two of them in the list of presidents alone) US presidents just as or further to the right of Hitler. Not defending US presidents by any means but I don't think Obama is quite as right-wing as Adolf himself.
And Stalin equally as "authoritarian" as Hitler, whatever the fuck that means, because they gotta stick that Horseshoe theory in there somehow.
edit: Also "Marxism." Not Marx himself but the entire ideology I guess.