I got:
# 1 Anarchist # 2 Bookchinite # 3 Democratic Socialist # 4 DeLeonist # 5 Democratic Marxist # 6 Leninist-Trotskyist # 7 Castroist # 8 Progressive # 9 Shachtmanite # 10 Libertarian Socialist # 11 Kimist # 12 Social Democrat # 13 Stalinist/Maoist # 14 Christian Socialist
Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ - http://www.anarchistfaq.org
"If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." - Mikhail Bakunin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:15 PM Subject: Re: What Kind of Socialist Are You? Take the Test
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Schaap" <rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au>
> >I'll play, Nathan! Here's my list from best fit to worst - what's yours?
>
> Here was my list:
>
> # 1 Democratic Socialist
> # 2 Anarchist
> # 3 Democratic Marxist
> # 4 Progressive
> # 5 Shachtmanite
> # 6 Bookchinite
> # 7 Libertarian Socialist
> # 8 DeLeonist
> # 9 Social Democrat
> # 10 Leninist-Trotskyist
> # 11 Christian Socialist
> # 12 Castroist
> # 13 Kimist
> # 14 Stalinist/Maoist
>
> 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.
>
> -- Nathan
>