Quick test: are you capitalist or socialist?

[Ravenheart]

Are you a socialist or capitalist? (http://www.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/)

My results:
You Are 20% Capitalist, 80% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-1.jpg

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

[koch curve]

You Are 68% Capitalist, 32% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-4.jpg

In general, you support a free economy and business interests.
You tend to think people should fend for themselves, even when times get tough.
However, do think the government should help those who are truly in need.

apparently i am also a new york socialite woman XD

[Daniel Shays]

this poll blows.

You Are 12% Capitalist, 88% Socialist
http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-1.jpg
You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

[Basil Fawlty]

Hehe, looks like I'm more of a socialist than the Stalinist poster above!

***You Are 4% Capitalist, 96% Socialist***


You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

[tempus fugit]

***You Are 60% Capitalist, 40% Socialist***

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate. Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too. You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[Jimbo Gomez]

You Are 40% Capitalist, 60% Socialist

You tend to be quite wary of businesses, especially big business.
While you know that corporations have their place, you tend to support small, locally owned shops.
As far as the rich go, you think they're usually corrupt and immoral.

[Daniel Shays]

Not too bad for a petty-bourgeois hotelier. :D

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What did everyone check?

Fast food and tobacco companies aren't accountable for the health of their customers.

^ This is true thus I checked it. Probably shouldn't have because I don't see it as desirable.

I also checked these two:

There is no such thing as a "fair" redistribution of wealth.
In general, you believe that people with the greatest abilities rise to the top.

[Ravenheart]

Fast food and tobacco companies aren't accountable for the health of their customers.

^ This is true thus I checked it. Probably shouldn't have because I don't see it as desirable.

I think fast food and tobacco companies, like all others, have a social responsibility, and if they won't take it, they should be forced to. At the minimum, they should provide sufficient information on related health issues. I recently noticed McDonald's here has the audacity to present its food as somehow healthy.

I also checked these two:

There is no such thing as a "fair" redistribution of wealth.

Why did you check that one? Redistributing wealth can surely be a fair policy?

In general, you believe that people with the greatest abilities rise to the top.

I also checked that one.

[koch curve]

* Welfare tends to hurt people more than it helps them. -no
* The best kind of health care is private health care. - yes
* Free trade is a good thing- even if some jobs leave your country. - yes
* Taxation should be kept at a minimum, even if government services need to be cut. - yes
* Education is a luxury, not a right. - yes
* Business people are more important to society than artists. - no
* People who make money have no obligation to contribute to society. - yes
* The rich pay more than their fair share of taxes. - no
* Fast food and tobacco companies aren't accountable for the health of their customers. - yes
* People should have the right to buy any drug they choose - legally. - yes
* Unions harm companies more than help them. - yes
* The government should not do anything to regulate the price of gas. - no
* Social security should be be privatized. - yes
* Big businesses are fine, as long as they don't accept corporate welfare. - yes
* The government is under no obligation to provide for the poor. - yes
* There was no good reason for Martha Stewart to go to jail. - yes
* Over the course of the 20th century, countries with free market economies truly prevailed. - yes
* Labor laws inhibit business owners too much. - no
* There is no such thing as a "fair" redistribution of wealth. -yes
* In general, you believe that people with the greatest abilities rise to the top. -yes
* Corporations don't have special social responsibilities. - yes
* Business, not the government, does a better job at advancing technologies. -yes
* The government should not support the arts. People will pay for the best art. - yes
* Minimum wage laws hurt the economy. - yes
* Prostitution should be completely legal. - yes

[Daniel Shays]

Why did you check that one? Redistributing wealth can surely be a fair policy?Because the capitalists will always resist redistribution of wealth. 'Fairness' doesn't interest me, empowering the workers - at the expense of the bourgeoisie does. Socialism heightens class conflict until the proletariat reigns supreme over its mangled class enemies.

From Lenin's essay, "Democracy" and Dictatorship:

But why not reach this goal without the dictatorship of one class? Why not switch directly to "pure" democracy? So ask the hypocritical friends of the bourgeoisie for the naive petty-bourgeois and philistines gulled by them.

And we reply: Because in any capitalist society the powerful tell lies to either the bourgeoisie or the proletariat, while the small proprietors, inevitably, remain wavering, helpless, stupid dreamers of "pure", i.e., nonclass or above class, democracy. Because from a society in which one class opposes another there is no way out other than through the dictatorship of the oppressed class. Because the proletariat alone is capable of defeating the bourgeoisie, of overthrowing them, being the sole class which capitalism has united and "schooled", and which is capable of drawing to its side the wavering mass of the working population with a petty-bourgeois way of life, of drawing them to its side or at least "neutralizing" them. Because only mealy-mouthed petty-bourgeois and philistines can dream — deceiving thereby both themselves and the workers — of overthrowing capitalist oppression without a long and difficult process of suppressing the resistance of the exploiters. In Germany and Austria this resistance is not yet very pronounced because expropriation of the expropriators has not yet begun. But once expropriation begins the resistance will be fierce and desperate. In concealing this from themselves and from the workers, the Scheidemanns and Kautskys, the Austerlitzes and Renners betray the interests of the proletariat, switching at the most decisive moment from the class struggle and overthrow of the yoke of the bourgeoisie to getting the proletariat to come to terms with the bourgeoisie, achieving "social peace" or reconciliation of exploited and exploiters.



(http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists//archive/lenin/works/1918/dec/23.htm)

[Captain Marinesko]

I am being totally honest when I say I got 100% socialist. I couldn't agree to anything written there.

[shanemac]

You Are 44% Capitalist, 56% Socialist

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.
Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.
You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[Arrow Cross]

I am being totally honest when I say I got 100% socialist. I couldn't agree to anything written there.
I coudn't either. Also, I don't think it was a good test, for being far too predictable.

[VAMPIR]

You Are 16% Capitalist, 84% Socialist

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Bunch of pinko commie bastards.

[Dr. Gutberlet]

You Are 24% Capitalist, 76% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-2.jpg

You tend to be quite wary of businesses, especially big business.
While you know that corporations have their place, you tend to support small, locally owned shops.
As far as the rich go, you think they're usually corrupt and immoral.

Are You a Socialist or Capitalist?

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/

[Arminius]

You Are 8% Capitalist, 92% Socialist

[sugartits]

I coudn't either. Also, I don't think it was a good test, for being far too predictable.

Yeah. That's blogthings for ya. Most people should have an idea which way they lean anyway....I hope.

[Stick to the Facts]

These questions are extremely poorly written and am

biguous.

"There was no good reason for Martha Stewart to go to jail."

There was a very good reason for her to go to jail - she committed perjury (that's what she was convicted of.) There was very little good reason to go after her in the first place.

"Unions harm companies more than help them."

This is true by definition. No company is going to be hostile towards something if it benefits them. It should be phrased "do unions harm THE ECONOMY more than they help them."

"The best kind of health care is private health care."

This of course is true. But it does not mean that no heath care is better than non-private health care.

Etc.

[Isra'il Yahya]

Socialist but not concerned with "social justice". The test says 92 % Socialist.

[Ixtab]

As a true nationalist, I am 100% socialist.

[Niko Bellic]

***You Are 84% Capitalist, 16% Socialist***

You're a capitalist pig - and proud of it.
You believe that business makes the world great...
And you'd never be ashamed of being rich!


America! Fuck, Yeah!:)

[benfromcanada]

You Are 12% Capitalist, 88% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-1.jpg

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

Are You a Socialist or Capitalist?

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/

[Hlinkova Garda]

You Are 4% Capitalist, 96% Socialist***


You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person

[Sandee]

You Are 28% Capitalist, 72% Socialist
http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-2.jpg

You tend to be quite wary of businesses, especially big business.
While you know that corporations have their place, you tend to support small, locally owned shops.
As far as the rich go, you think they're usually corrupt and immoral.

[Captain Marinesko]

You Are 4% Capitalist, 96% Socialist***


You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person


4% CAPITALIST? Clutch your copy of Atlas Shrugged a little tighter, Libertarian!!!

[Vasily Zaitsev]

Didn't bother due to bad wording of the questions.

I hate welfare. Welfare is for societies where wage labor still exists. Etc etc.

The test assumes a reformist socialism rather than a radical brand.

[Hlinkova Garda]

4% CAPITALIST? Clutch your copy of Atlas Shrugged a little tighter, Libertarian!!!


no no no no no it was the wording the one about medical care. private med is better but i dont belive it should be i belive in nationalized health care..i thought it ment ........
why is english so much interpitive ??

BTW I am a Theocratical Panslavic Socialist

[Kodos]

***You Are 84% Capitalist, 16% Socialist***

You're a capitalist pig - and proud of it.
You believe that business makes the world great...
And you'd never be ashamed of being rich!


America! Fuck, Yeah!:)

Sweet, you beat me (only got 78% cap).

[हिन्दुस्तान]

You Are 92% Capitalist, 8% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-5.jpg

You're a capitalist pig - and proud of it.
You believe that business makes the world great...
And you'd never be ashamed of being rich!


I would have thought I would have been a 100% Capitalist :(

[FreeWhiteMan]

92% Freedom Loving Capitalist
8% Statist Socialist

You're a capitalist pig - and proud of it.
You believe that business makes the world great...
And you'd never be ashamed of being rich!



Stick to the Facts
Quote:
"There was no good reason for Martha Stewart to go to jail."

There was a very good reason for her to go to jail - she committed perjury (that's what she was convicted of.) There was very little good reason to go after her in the first place."


Martha Stewart was not convicted of Perjury she was convicted of making false statements to Federal Agents. She was not under oath when she made these statements.

[Lily]

:eek: I got 12% Capitalist and 88% Socialist.

Thats a rubbish test anyway....:p

[Gordon of Khartoum]

You Are 60% Capitalist, 40% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-3.jpg

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.
Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.
You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

Are You a Socialist or Capitalist?

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/

Freedom is a thing not to be sniffed at. Most of the great art was the product of freedom desire. Most of the useful things we have today are the result of freedom. I am wary of "socialists" who require that a standard apartment, a standard job and standard political ideology will cure all ills.

[Ravenheart]

this poll blows.
These questions are extremely poorly written and ambiguous.
The test assumes a reformist socialism rather than a radical brand.
Thats a rubbish test anyway....

Agreed, but I still wanted to post it. I was hoping a bit of a debate could grow out of the test statements.

[NKVD]

You Are 0% Capitalist, 100% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-1.jpg

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

Are You a Socialist or Capitalist?

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/

[Micaelis]

You Are 60% Capitalist, 40% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-3.jpg

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.
Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.
You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

Are You a Socialist or Capitalist?

http://www.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/

[EdwardSmith]

The simplistic capitalist-socialist duality is entirely false.

There are in fact 4 general economic systems that humans can psychologically
desire. They are:

1. unregulated capitalism with no socialist government programs
(what may be called 'pure capitalism' or 'strict capitalism', the truest form of capitalism)
(this is most favored by the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists)

2. regulated capitalism with no socialist government programs
(this is most favored by many independents)

3. collective ownership and egalitarian government benefits (aka socialism)
(this is most favored by leftists)

4. a centralized or semi-centralized system equivalent to serfdom, which emphasizes rent and servitude
(this is most favored by theocrats)

Economic ideologies #2 and #4 are considered 'intermediate between unregulated
capitalism and socialism' by the deceptive capitalist-socialist scale, which implies
that the proponents of each system would tolerate the other, when in fact those 2
systems are polar opposite to eachother, and their proponents have even less
tolerance of said opposites than they do to both unregulated capitalism and
socialism. An accurate economic ideology positioning scale consists of a square
field, with each corner representing 1 of the 4 economic ideologies, with opposite
ideologies being on opposite corners.

[Ixtab]

I believe in socialist production, and unsocialist distribution. What does that make me?

[EdwardSmith]

"I believe in socialist production, and unsocialist distribution. What does that make me?"

-Are you asking me (since your reply came immediately after mine), or the forum members
in general?

You have not described your system well enough for me to judge.
What do you mean by 'socialist production' and 'unsocialist distribution'?
Does that mean that no one keeps track of how much each person works,
but the government distributes money, products, and/or services unequally based
upon some criteria other than quantity of work? -and if so, what is that criteria?

[Ixtab]

Wealth is distributed unequally and on the basis of class, and moreover in line with eugenic principles, whilst the means of economic production are collectively owned and operated.

[EdwardSmith]

Wealth is distributed unequally and on the basis of class, and moreover in line with eugenic principles, whilst the means of economic production are collectively owned and operated.

-Thankyou for clarifying what you meant by 'merit' (Neo-Galtonian replaced 'merit' with
'class, and moreover in line with eugenic principles' in his last edit), as I was going to ask.

From what I can tell, your system is most similar to economic system #4, having centralized
control and emphasis on servitude (low-class and geneticly-undesired people serving high-class
and geneticly-desired people), but it also has some similarity to capitalism due to basing
inequalities upon differences in intrinsic genetic value (the key word being 'intrinsic'), assuming
that the traits that you would select have intrinsic value rather than extrinsic value. What are
the specific genetic traits that your system would value most?

[Ixtab]

Thank you. Actually, I wasn't asking you or anyone else in particular, but I appreciate your answer. My utopia, which emphasises 'socialistic' production and 'unsocialist' distribution, in fact does not fit into the socialism-capitalism dichotomy. However, it does not fit into your scheme either. I don't place any emphasis on servitude or authority of any kind. I shall elaborate on all of this later.

[Berianidze]

Thank you. Actually, I wasn't asking you or anyone else in particular, but I appreciate your answer. My utopia, which emphasises 'socialistic' production and 'unsocialist' distribution, in fact does not fit into the socialism-capitalism dichotomy. However, it does not fit into your scheme either. I don't place any emphasis on servitude or authority of any kind. I shall elaborate on all of this later.
You mean a system that respects private property, concentration of wealth into private hands and the ownership of the means of production limited to a few individuals with monopolistic control over most industries?

[todd]

You Are 92% Capitalist, 8% Socialist

[todd]

You mean a system that respects private property, concentration of wealth into private hands and the ownership of the means of production limited to a few individuals with monopolistic control over most industries?:nopity: :nopity:

[Ixtab]

You mean a system that respects private property, concentration of wealth into private hands and the ownership of the means of production limited to a few individuals with monopolistic control over most industries?No. The means of economic production would be largely owned by the state or the municipality, as aforesaid.

[Berianidze]

No. The means of economic production would be largely owned by the state or the municipality, as aforesaid.
Okay, but monopolies are an example of socialized production combined with private ownership. That's why I asked...

[Rakhmetov]

"You Are 0% Capitalist, 100% Socialist."

[///M power]

You Are 40% Capitalist, 60% Socialist

You tend to be quite wary of businesses, especially big business.
While you know that corporations have their place, you tend to support small, locally owned shops.
As far as the rich go, you think they're usually corrupt and immoral.

[MrAngry]

You Are 48% Capitalist, 52% Socialist
While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.
Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.
You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[ironweed]

This is actually pretty accurate as to the narrative. Not so sure about the percentages.


***You Are 48% Capitalist, 52% Socialist***

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.

Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.

You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[Starr]

You Are 28% Capitalist, 72% Socialist

You tend to be quite wary of businesses, especially big business.
While you know that corporations have their place, you tend to support small, locally owned shops.
As far as the rich go, you think they're usually corrupt and immoral.

[Hippias]

You Are 60% Capitalist, 40% Socialist

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate. Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too. You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[Worker&Parasite]

You Are 8% Capitalist, 92% Socialist

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

[Mackie]

You Are 60% Capitalist, 40% Socialist

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate. Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too. You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.
Same score.

Never again should the horrors of communism be allowed to happen.

[harjit]

The 52 / 48 split is pretty much exactly what I would have thought.


You Are 52% Capitalist, 48% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-3.jpg

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.
Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.
You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[Scryllak]

Good enough, although some of the questions annoyed me.

You Are 56% Capitalist, 44% Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-3.jpg

While you are definitely sympathetic to a free economy, you also worry about the less fortunate.
Wealth and business is fine, as long as those who are in need get helped out too.
You tend to see both the government and corporations as potentially corrupt.

[Berianidze]

Same score.

Never again should the horrors of communism be allowed to happen.
There's nothing you can do about it...it's a societal inevitability! My suggestion would be to bow down now and perhaps you'll be spared! :)

On a side note, advocating or beleiving in a system of private ownership of the means of production technically is not what makes one a capitalist. Capitalism is not a set of beliefs or an ideology--the ideology that supports capitalism is liberalism. One becomes a capitalist when one invests capital to purchase commodities in turn to create new commodities to sell at a larger sum for profit.

[Geist]

You Are 64% Capitalist, 36% Socialist

In general, you support a free economy and business interests.
You tend to think people should fend for themselves, even when times get tough.
However, you do think the government should help those who are truly in need.


I would have figured myself somewhere in the middle, but the questions regarding the arts and education will have contributed to my socialist score more than others perhaps. Interesting test for a small one.

[Micaelis]

There's nothing you can do about it...it's a societal inevitability! My suggestion would be to bow down now and perhaps you'll be spared! :)

Violent revolution of the prole is eschatologically INEVITABLE! Thus spoke Besoshvili.

[Draco]

You Are 12% Capitalist, 88%(!) Socialist

http://images.blogthings.com/areyouasocialistorcapitalistquiz/politics-1.jpg

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power {jews/their lackeys-D.}.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

[Professor John Frink]

You Are 40% Capitalist, 60% Socialist

You tend to be quite wary of businesses, especially big business.
While you know that corporations have their place, you tend to support small, locally owned shops.
As far as the rich go, you think they're usually corrupt and immoral.

Same here.