Ida ao consultório político

Parece que agora anda tudo doido a fazer o teste político da European Political Ideologies. Sempre tive em muito baixa conta os quizzes do género, sobretudo os de questões tais como "serei honesta?", "terei qualidades de liderança?", "seremos compatíveis no amor?", mesmo nos meus tempos de baixa puberdade em que lia a revista Ragazza.
Mas os testes de orientação política são divertidos, sobretudo quando apresentam gráficos e nos permitem a comparação com celebridades, figuras históricas e religiões. Infelizmente esse não é o caso da European Political Ideologies, mas este é um começo interessante. A partir daqui, fui à cata de todos os questionários de ideologia que encontrei na net, para comparar os resultados. Ele há coisas hilariantes.

Quando fazemos o teste da European Political Ideologies, há 12 resultados possíveis já predefinidos e é-nos pedida uma previsão. Eu disse sem grande convicção que o meu resultado seria "social liberal".

Os resultados do meu teste são um poucochito dúbios no topo, mas genericamente fiéis na composição geral. Eis o meu ranking:

# 1 - You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).

# 2 - You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.

# 3 - You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.

# 4 - You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.

# 5 - You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

# 6 - You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.

# 7 - You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.

# 8 - You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

# 9 - You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.

# 10 - You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

# 11 - You are a classical socialist, believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector, covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but probably also the 'commanding heights' of industry (e.g. iron and steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in general, but there is considerable variation within this political group.

# 12 - You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income - and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se. You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern "eurocommunists" tend to take a liberal line.

Macacos me mordam.
"Anarco-capitalista"? Não, pá!
A minha previsão de "social liberal" só aparece em quarto. Coisa curiosa é que antes de ser comunista (o último da lista), eu seria fascista. E blairista a meio da tabela.