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You adhere to the Third Way.
The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of
combining economic efficiency – i.e. a market economy with some
intervention – with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on
the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se.
Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their
social views, and have recently been willing to take a “tough” line on
a range of social issues.
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| #2 |
You are a social democrat.
Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society
– but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned
economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides
certain key services and where the productivity of the market is
harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are
hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant
social outlook.
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| #3 |
You are a social liberal.
Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central
objective – but you believe that lack of economic opportunity,
education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an
oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most
outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine
this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing
public services to ensure that people’s social rights as well as their
civil liberties are upheld.
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| #4 |
You are an ecologist or green.
You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the
threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action
must be taken to protect it – whether in the enlightened self-interest
of humanity (in the tradition of ‘shallow ecologism’) or, more
radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without
treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).
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| #5 |
You are a classical socialist,
believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean
greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as
possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector,
covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but
probably also the ‘commanding heights’ of industry (e.g. iron and
steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in
general, but there is considerable variation within this political
group.
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| #6 |
You are a Christian democrat
– or, in the UK, a “One Nation conservative”; in other words, although
you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you
believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the
better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially
conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does
have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose
after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating
from the 1870s.
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| #7 |
You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income – and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se.
You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which
the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of
the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional
communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern
“eurocommunists” tend to take a liberal line.
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| #8 |
You are a libertarian conservative.
You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic
activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional
social values of authority and duty.
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| #9 |
You are an anarcho-capitalist.
Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that “that government
is best which governs least”, and extend it – “that government is best
which governs not at all”. The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the
market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour
(resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).
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| #10 |
You are a market liberal.
You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this
to mean negative rather than positive freedom – i.e. a slimmed-down
state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front – though less emphatically so than social liberals.
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| #11 |
You are a fascist.
You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social
values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You
strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to
combat it.
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| #12 |
You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.
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Miguel Valerio 