army1987 comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Yvain 19 October 2012 01:12AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 October 2012 08:35:22AM 1 point [-]

I would be inclined to add in a "Anarchist" category for politics.

Should that be split into left-anarchist and right-anarchist/anarcho-capitalism?

And a surprising number of European parties are "Christian Democrat". They tend to be in favor of some level of wealth redistribution and of labor unions (unlike US conservatives), but socially conservative (unlike US liberals).

Aren't those basically their countries right of center parties?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2012 12:20:42PM 1 point [-]

Should that be split into left-anarchist and right-anarchist/anarcho-capitalism?

Wouldn't the latter go into “Libertarian” as it currently exists in the poll?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 20 October 2012 01:34:52AM 1 point [-]

If don't specify anarchism as left-anarchism, some of them might vote for it.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 October 2012 08:50:52AM *  2 points [-]

Yes. I meant it's not terribly useful to have right-anarchism and right-libertarianism separately. What I would do is renaming “Libertarianism” to “Free-market libertarianism or anarcho-capitalism” while keeping the description and the example intact, and add “Libertarian socialism or (left) anarchism, for example [something]: socially permissive, no private property of means of production”. But Yvain says he doesn't want to change the question so we can compare the answers to those in the previous surveys, so this is moot.