flacaltenn
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In the Nolan chart -- the 2 pillars of liberty and choice lie on either the Economic axis or the Social axis. It actually reflects the core concept that freedom and liberty are not granted by allowing just one or the other.
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I find the Nolan Chart under representative, because it does not take into account that anarchists (max libertarian) and fascists (max statist) also have differing economic ideologies that vary from left to right.
While the differences in economic ideology for fascists may be based more on semantics than substance (I might be misspeaking since I am not well versed in fascist philosophy outside Mussolini), anarchism is incredibly varied economically.
We have capitalists, syndicalists, mutualists, communists, and partecons. Then we have those that integrate them together. The best chart at the moment is the political compass.
Unlike the Nolan Chart, the Political Compass does not marginalize left or right as signifying the scale of economic liberty, which allows greater representation of economic ideologies. I do recognize that it does not offer a horseshoe, but I believe it is better to allow for every position to be represented than to illustrate horseshoe theory on the graph.
By the way, the populist on your chart should be replaced with statist or authoritarian.
That confuses me tho. Because there is specific context in being "left or right" Nor do I care if Mussolini was Authoritarian Democrat or Authoritarian Republican. (using the usual context of Left and Right). But if you tell me that Mussolini was more TOLERANT of minorities and social issues than Hitler -- that puts more information and space between the 2.
You are right. There is not ONE version of 2 dimensional charts like the Nolan and many use Authoritarian or statist as the "southland". Some even have more 2 dim. territories to divide up progressives and anarchists for instance. The BEST thing is --- they ALL are better located in a multi-dimensional space.
I agree -- politics is NEVER one dimensional. If America was better educated -- we should be locating politicians in 3 space or 4 space rather than the silly one dimensional L/R "rope pull" that everyone is familiar with.