The Political Compass website works out not only where you sit as per the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789 (getting a bit old-hat and rigid by now) but also how an "up and down" axis best fits your view of the world. This provides a unique position for you and you can see which political figures are nearest to your own position.
As the intro to the website says:
On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as "right-wingers", yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook.
So are you ready to take the test? Remember that there's no right, wrong or ideal response. It's simply a measure of attitudes and inevitable human contradictions to provide a more integrated definition of where people and parties are really at.
PS Blogger's spell-checker is still not working!
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