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Originally Posted by Biffmeistro
Please, I want NO POST RESPONSES.
Just anonymously answer whether you are politically conservative or liberal, and to what degree.
It's more to answer a bit of curiosity on my part as to the demographics of the forum, rather than "Who is what" and that's why I'm going to request no responses saying what you voted for.
Perhaps as the poll goes on, maybe we can discuss the results, but I hate forum political debates... They just degrade everyone.
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You need to add the following categories....
Marxist-Leninist
Trotskyite
Fabian Socialist
Social Democrat
Anarcho-Socialist
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Anarcho-Capitalist
Libertarian
Classical Liberal
Randian Libertarian
Rothbardian Libertarian
I did not include "Fascist" because to me they are a variation of socialist, save the socialists would have insisted that the State own the means of production while in Hitler's Germany the State tightly controlled raw materials and had heavy oversight of industry. In contrast Hitler had government paid medical benefits, compulsory public service for youth, gun control (which monopolized coercive force to the State), unpaid working days (taken from the USSR's "subotnik"), bans on tobacco (for public hygiene reasons) and many other socialist style inroads into people's lives.
If you want some brevity this condensation should suffice for ordinary purposes....
Communist
Socialist
Anarchist
Libertarian
Adding these four categories would help to define the many people around the world who aren't "Liberal" or "Conservative" in the US sense. I might add that there are many other variations than I added, including Maost, Bolivarian Socialist and many other versions.
I come closest to Libertarian though I disagree with them on a few things.
Gene
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