>However, I also didn't like the first question on equality, since it's
>unnuanced, since it assumes absolute equality of results, while there are
>other degrees of equality- equality based on effort (from and to each
>according to their means), equality of economic power in setting whatever
>inequality of incentives is deemed useful, etc. No room for market
>socialism or really the whole internal debate of democratic socialisms.
>That I come up anarchist as my second choice shows the poverty of the list-
>it kind of equates anarchist with democratic and anti-Soviet.
>
>I actually would love to create a more sophisticated set of selection
>question based note just on the violence-democracy issues that this quiz
>focused on and more on the real debates on how to structure socialism.
>Maybe it could be a group LBO project to create the key set of questions
>that differentiate different forms of socialism.
Yeah, it was kind of a dumb test. Changing just one answer would change the entire results - it's pretty nuty to choose among 14 categories based on just 10 questions. The equality question was almost impossible to answer, as was the USSR vs. USA one, and the violence one, and the parliamentary one... All those damned forced choices. Doing that right would probably take 100 questions, assuming there was a right way to do it, and it was worth doing at all.
Doug