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A little quiz that asks questions to determine what political ideology and theories of political economy you might embrace. Only 13 questions counting the two ones on every quiz.

This test asks questions mostly related to economy and legitimacy of certain institutions and most of the options are various schools of anarchism so please forgive the lack of statist ideologies. The title should mention this focus on anarchism and libertarianism. Anyways hope it's fun.

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What kind of private property rights are legitimate if any?
- Property based on Lockean homesteading.
- Lockeanism protected by government
- Usufruct/occupancy and use is the basis of private property
- Private property is okay but can be taxed or regulated by the state.
- All property belongs to the state for the good of the nation and private people hold that property in trust when the government allows it.
- None, private property is inherently coercive.
What is your take on communal property?
- Communal property is fine if it is privately homesteaded or occupied by those using it.
- Property can really only be private.
- Property can be owned by the community via the government.
- All property should be communally owned and run.
- The government and therefore the nation-state own all land in the name of the national community.
- There is no such thing as property/Land cannot be owned.
What is the nature of corporations and do they have a proper role in society?
- Corporations are okay if they are regulated by the state to curb abuses.
- Corporations should work together with the government for the good of the nation.
- Corporations are the natural result of the coercive market economy and should be abolished.
- Corporations should be nationalized once they reach a certain size to make sure they serve the people.
- Corporations would be fine if the government got rid of the corporate welfare and bailouts.
- Corporations wouldn't exist in a free market as they are currently and historically propped up by state coercion.
Is military intervention or the military in general justifiable?
- The military is fine if there's no draft and is only used for defense and humanitarian intervention.
- The military is of prime importance to the nation and should be supported and used to protect national interests at home and abroad.
- The military should be only used for defense and little else. Standing militaries are of questionable value.
- The military is essential to the expansion and defence of the nation and mandatory service is justifiable.
- The military is an innately illegitimate institution.
- Any military operated by the state or state sanctioned group is illegitimate. It is justifiable for voluntary groups to band together to resist oppression though.
What is your take on the issues of free trade, protectionism, fair trade, and/or globalization?
- National industries need to be protected by the state.
- Free trade should be abandoned for fair trade. the government needs to make sure nations our nation is trading with have adequate labor and enviromental protection.
- The state should use diplomacy and military actions to open up markets abroad.
- Globalization and free trade are a fundamental cause of inequality and exploitation and should be abandoned.
- Free trade is the only fair trade, as long as we have a truly free market.
- The government shouldn't restrict the ability of companies to trade.
Is there such thing as wage slavery?
- All market interactions are coercive and need to be abolished.
- Yes and the solution is for workers to work in worker owned co-ops and unions and practice workplace democracy.
- Yes, but it can be best ameliorated by regulating the economy with the state to lessen inequality
- Yes, when the economy is based on an ongoing history of state coercion and regulation to the benefit of capital. The solution is a truly freed market.
- Not if there's a free market, then all employment is voluntary.
- No, working for a wage is often the best alternative for many and the state should encourage economic growth for everyones' benefit.
What do you think of the police?
- The police are central to keeping order and should be supported, but oversight is appropriate to keep abuses in check.
- The police are essential to ensure obedience to the law for the good of the nation.
- Police are important but should be scaled back significantly.
- Only privately run police organizations not affiliated with the state, operating to protect their customers' safety and private property are justifiable.
- Police are inherently illegitimate and statist, they should be abolished.
- It is okay for private communities, groups, and individuals to protect themselves from aggression but police run by the state are just enforcing state coercion.
What is the nature of government regulation of the economy?
- It is a start but we need more and better regulations that are better enforced to reduce inequality.
- It is innately coercive and damages the economy.
- Minimal government regulation is necessary but too much is crippling.
- It is inherently coercive and serves to prop up capitalist power at the expense of everyone else.
- Regulations aren't necessary, market interactions should be abandoned.
- Regulation is necessary to ensure economic order and stability for the good of the nation.
Is there such thing as an ideal government?
- Only the proletarian government for the workers is ideal.
- The ideal government is that which embodies and furthers the power of the nation.
- The ideal government is as small as possible, only protecting individuals from aggression.
- An ideal government is democratic and ensures economic and social equality
- An ideal government protects the interests of the people and their constitutional rights.
- No, all statism is coercive and illegitimate.
What type of taxation if any is justified?
- None, it is theft, the state is illegitimate.
- The state should collect funds voluntarily as taxes are theft.
- No need for taxes, the worker's should take back what's theirs and abandon the state.
- Taxes are necessary for the good of the nation-state.
- Taxes are needed to operate essential government services and shouldn't be too little or too much.
- Taxes should be high on the wealthy and used for welfare to promote equality.
What should be done, if anything at all, to address environmental issues?
- In a free market, enforcement of private property would do much to curb environmental damage.
- Strong government regulations are needed to combat global warming and other environmental problems.
- Technology and civilization itself are the issue, and threaten all life on the planet. A return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle is needed if mankind wishes to flourish.
- Moderate government regulations are needed but we shouldn't cripple the economy.
- The needs of the nation and its interests surpass that of the environment.
- Getting rid of the state and leaving people to solve these issues themselves would be the best solution.

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