Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Political Compass and V for Vendetta

In class Tuesday we discussed the power of words and how the terms we apply to political parties become weighted with connotations that may not apply to the political theories themselves. Here is a link to the political compass quiz I was talking about:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Take a moment to take the quiz and then check out the website and its analysis. What do you think of this expansion of the left vs right political continuum? How does adding the economic and social scale change things? Where on the scale would you put some of the characters in our graphic novel? Where do you fall? If you include your ec and soc scores Iin the comments I will build us a group chart.

Also take a minute to look at their explanation of UK political parties. It will help us parse the British historical and social context:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010