Reading these results
These are people the quiz placed in Left-Wing Nationalism on the strength of these same answers, so the strongest agreements are partly built in.
The interesting figures are the ones further down: what this group is split on, and where it departs from the rest of the sample in ways the label alone would not predict. The comparison group is everyone who has taken the long quiz, which leans left of the general public.
Where they break from everyone else
The statements where this group is furthest from the rest of the sample.
No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.
Checks and Balances · Governance axis · 67 answered
This group sits 99 points further towards disagreeing than the average quiz taker.
The government should be able to monitor private communications if it improves national security.
Surveillance · Governance axis · 67 answered
This group sits 91 points further towards agreeing than the average quiz taker.
The country runs better when power is concentrated in a strong central authority.
Centralization of Power · Governance axis · 67 answered
This group sits 86 points further towards agreeing than the average quiz taker.
Police should be given broad authority to maintain law and order, even if it limits some freedoms.
Police Powers · Governance axis · 67 answered
This group sits 84 points further towards agreeing than the average quiz taker.
Even hateful or offensive speech should remain legal and free from government restriction.
Free Speech · Governance axis · 67 answered
This group sits 77 points further towards disagreeing than the average quiz taker.
All citizens should be required to complete military or civil service for the good of the nation.
Mandatory Service · Governance axis · 67 answered
This group sits 71 points further towards agreeing than the average quiz taker.
Economic progress depends mainly on entrepreneurs taking risks, not on government planning.
Entrepreneurship · Economic axis · 67 answered
This group sits 69 points further towards disagreeing than the average quiz taker.
Markets naturally organize themselves better than governments can design them.
Spontaneous Order · Economic axis · 67 answered
This group sits 68 points further towards disagreeing than the average quiz taker.
What they argue about
Sharing a label does not mean sharing an answer. These are the statements that split Left-Wing Nationalism closest to evenly.
Civilian party control prevents military coups and dictatorships.
civilian · Military Role axis · 65 answered
47% agreed, 46% disagreed.
International proletarian culture supersedes all local customs.
cosmopolitan · Cultural Policy axis · 65 answered
49% agreed, 47% disagreed.
Scientific socialism demands abandoning all pre-modern worldviews.
modernism · Cultural Policy axis · 65 answered
46% agreed, 44% disagreed.
Children should be taught to obey authority without question.
Obedience · Governance axis · 34 answered
50% agreed, 47% disagreed.
Men and women naturally have different roles in society that should be respected.
Gender Roles · Social axis · 66 answered
37% agreed, 48% disagreed.
When credit is too easy or governments give subsidies, it leads to wasteful investments that collapse.
Malinvestment · Economic axis · 64 answered
37% agreed, 51% disagreed.
Immigration and cultural diversity strengthen society.
Multiculturalism · Social axis · 66 answered
42% agreed, 56% disagreed.
People should be free to change their legal gender and have it fully recognized in society.
Trans Rights · Social axis · 66 answered
59% agreed, 36% disagreed.
Their average position
- Economic
- Left57.2%
- Governance
- Authoritarian55.1%
- Social
- Progressive1.1%
Averaged across 67 responses.
Averaged across 67 responses.
Averaged across 67 responses.