Leonstein's Political Ideologies Quiz

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1. War is simply a continuation of politics by other means.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
2. It is government’s job to create a basic order in the chaos of human society.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
3. Poverty, inequality and instability is almost always worsened and never remedied by government.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
4. The best way for workers to overcome oppression is through their unions.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
5. Governments owe it to their citizens to spend money prudently and not run up huge debts.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
6. Greed and materialism destroy spirituality and make people unhappy.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
7. The government has no right to intervene in consensual agreements between adults.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
8. Technology is really distancing us from our natural selves.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
9. Countries are successful while fighting adversity, and decline once they overcome it.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
10. Humans shouldn’t change the environment.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
11. Workers should learn how to run businesses themselves and simply cut out the boss.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
12. We should combine traditional European values and traditions with modern science and economics.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
13. Money is a creation by the rulers which serves to protect the elite's assets and expand their wealth	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
14. All money should be 100% underwritten by holdings in gold or another commodity with stable value.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
15. Every person has a right to their own body, and therefore everything that stems from its production.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
16. Ultimately rich countries will always try to bring down a socialist revolution.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
17. A powerful nation has the duty to create a stable and free world, by military force if necessary.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
18. When trying to change the way society works, intentions and actual results will never match.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
19. The Mondragon Cooperative illustrates that companies can run without owners and managers.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
20. If we want to make sure that industry serves the public welfare, the best way is government control.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree

21. A strong leader represents the interests and hopes of the nation and rules without dithering.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
22. Democracies don’t go to war against each other, so global democratisation would bring world peace.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
23. A government is always beholden to the interest of the wealthy and established elite.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
24. There is a traditional place in society for women which people should accept.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
25. If a company goes bankrupt, its employees should continue using its assets to earn a living.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
26. School Vouchers would create a fairer and more efficient schooling system.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
27. Jewish people are overrepresented in positions where important decisions are made.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
28. In a way, “domesticating” other species is like slavery and morally questionable.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
29. When it comes to the health of the nation, one individual's rights or concerns cannot be considered.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
30. A system of pure laissez-faire capitalism would improve standards of living.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
31. We should have compassion for others, and the economic system should reflect that.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
32. I believe that the success of the community is the best incentive to get people to perform.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
33. Crimes against morality are crimes against God and should be punished as such.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
34. The Soviet Union was a deformed stillborn, it called itself communist but was state-capitalist.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
35. People who live in primitive tribes are most likely happier than us in the “modern” world.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
36. Governments are always threatening private property rights.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
37. For the nation to be healthy internal differences must be overcome.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
38. People who question the basic values of our society, like hippies, irritate me.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
39. Defence and Law and Order can be provided efficiently and effectively by competing private agencies.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
40. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection holds true about the interaction between humans.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree

41. The key to achieving socialism is to not overlook the peasant population in the countryside.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
42. Turkey shouldn’t be allowed to join the EU.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
43. Sometimes it is appropriate to reduce a conflict in international politics to “Good vs Evil”.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
44. Manners are more important than laws.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
45. If social norms say something is wrong, then that’s probably got a grain of truth to it.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
46. Peoples should improve their living conditions by taking resources off other peoples.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
47. A communist movement can never integrate into democratic or other normal government processes.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
48. Science that contradicts the word of God doesn’t help anyone. It should be outlawed.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
49. The “fair tax” system of sales taxes and negative income taxes instead of welfare is a great idea.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
50. I believe that property rights are tools of exclusion imposed on society by the ruling elite.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
51. Social Democratic Parties are weak and controlled by interests contrary to those of the masses.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
52. If socialism is to prevail, it must be made certain that bureaucracy doesn’t take over.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
53. All division of labour and specialisation leads to hierarchical structures and thus inequality.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
54. Traditions are the result of many years of trying out the best practice and are therefore valuable.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
55. A social market economy is the best system mankind has come up with so far.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
56. Today a worker is often completely removed from what she produces, which is psychologically damaging	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
57. It is the duty of government to make sure that faith is spread and valued across the world.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
58. The communist states, for all their good intentions, failed because they were based on hierarchies.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
59. Differing ethnicities should be excluded to prevent instability within homogenous societies.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
60. The way to a true utopia lies through eliminating those elements that stand in the way.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree

61. Societies are too complex for us to really understand them scientifically.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
62. The only real and just law is ultimately the word of God.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
63. Individuals have duties towards each other and the community as a whole.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
64. Countries have the best chances of developing through massive public industrial projects.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
65. Government need only provide law and order, roads and other goods the market can't provide.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
66. There should be no barriers to the free movement of capital, goods or workers across the world.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
67. A better alternative to a global worker revolution would be to make communism work in one country.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
68. The class of the workers is an international class, and it must take power on an global level.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
69. Democratic governments can often fall into the trap of talking too much.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
70. Liberal Western Capitalism has won the great battle of ideology against communism.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
71. National self-sufficiency is the way to free the nation from the inequality of global markets.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
72. When one removes a dictatorship, the people will find their way to a democratic government.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
73. Ethnic groups share a connection deeper than just the way they look or talk.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
74. Many are unhappy because in our society it is impossible to be one with nature.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
75. Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are rather forced upon them from without.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
76. Some races have characteristics that make them better than others.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
77. The government must strictly limit the amount of money in the economy at all times.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree
78. Voting is pointless, direct action is the only way for the oppressed to make themselves heard.	Strongly Disagree	Strongly Agree