What Kind of Socialist Are You? Take the Test

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>I actually would love to create a more sophisticated set of selection
>question based not 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.

-Doing that right would probably take 100 questions, assuming
-there was a right way to do it, and it was worth doing at all.

Actually, I think it would be worthwhile if tied to a good glossary or
terms, since it would highlight the real choices any kind of socialism would
have to confront and, without forcing definitive divisions, highlight the
real issues that structure power in the economy.

We'll see if I get back to this seriously when I have time, but it does
intrigue me.  Although the best political spectrum was one devised by UTNE
READER many years ago which differentiated the whole political spectrum on
multimple axis from centralized power to degrees of inequality and so on.
And it noted cultural affinities of different groups as well, as in it noted
that "progressives" ate the food of oppressed peoples, but that democratic
socialists ate much the same but with "more meat and bigger portions" :)

-- Nathan