• GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    This is why we need to reeducate people and stop using the traditional left-right spectrum and start using the axis spectrum

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      4 hours ago

      Even the axis spectrum is unproductive, ideologies and frameworks cannot be distilled into single data points on a map, no matter how many axes you add.

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        3 hours ago

        The axis spectrum has proven to be very efficient imo. A lot of the politics we talk about are mainly composed of social and economic elements which the axis spectrum portrays well.

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              30 minutes ago

              I don’t know what you’re trying to refer to, here. Marxists have always discredited the Political Compass as overly simplistic and erasing nuance.

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            These views aren’t complicated though, or aren’t as complicated as you think. Most of our political opinions can be boiled down to any of the 4 quadrants of the axis.

            Can you name any view that doesn’t fit into this axis?

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              Many. Which is more “authoritarian” and which is more “libertarian,” a fully publicly owned and democratically controlled economy, or a highly decentralized market economy with a nightwatchman state?