The UK Election and The Political Compass
https://www.politicalcompass.org/counterpoint-20170610
The 2017 UK General Election perfectly demonstrates the point that The Political Compass has been making since we first went online sixteen years ago: that right and left relate only to economics, and that the addition of a social scale is necessary to provide a meaningful account of the political position of a person or party.
In the case of the recent French election, we pointed out that the media’s persistent and inaccurate description of the Front National as ‘extreme right’ made no sense, given the fact that its economics were to the left of the present Socialist Party. Marine Le Pen’s undoubted extremism was in her social policies; not her economics. Conversely, Macron’s neoliberal economics were well to the right of Le Pen, while his social policies were far less authoritarian. As long as people continue to describe social authoritarians as ‘extreme right wing’, the logical assumption is that all extreme left wingers are automatically the antithesis of authoritarianism. Stalin? Pol Pot? Kim Jong-un? Give us a break...
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