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I like David Brin's two dimensional ideological model.
Everyone here presumably understands the corners marked Stalinism, libertarianism, anarchism, but the upper right quadrant isn't as obvious. It corresponds, roughly, to medieval feudalism, with corrupt dictatorships being the closest modern example. Mencius Moldbug's ideology is probably the purest expression; the king owns the country, so he gets to rule it and control the people who live there.
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There seems to be an almost deliberate political mind killing when one has a graph where Stalin and Hilter are on the opposite side of anarchism and libertarianism.
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This is, by the way, largely equivalent to the "Political Compass", and bears a certain resemblance to the "World's Smallest Political Quiz" or "Nolan chart" of libertarian propaganda.
The notion of dictatorship as a property right suggests a useful third axis: concern for political equality. This seems to weakly correlate with opposition to state coercion, although not entirely.
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The fact that a sizeable minority of libertarians are anarchists should cast doubt on a model that places them on opposite ends of a spectrum. Also, I think your suggestion that the top right is represents feudalism (if true) would actually make the model even worse, since feudalism is horribly misunderstood by the general public (even more so than fascism, in my opinion).
This is a great article at Aeon magazine. The author argues that the new ideological dichotomy is going to be between people who have great faith in technology and human innovation (Up) and the people who believe that humans are much more tied to their biology and the Earth (Down).
LW of course is a very Up community.