• Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    I like this compass much better than the old one. The terming is so much more precise.

    The equality to hierarchy axis makes sense to me because I’d see this as a perspective of language. Do we view others as equals, or do we view them in terms of how honorable they are? Ideologies like anarchism and leninism sais that all people are mostly equals. Ideologies like nazism and capitalism sais that some people has more valuable jobs, or has more valuable blood and therefore deserves more.

    The centralization to decentralization axis is about societal structures. This is great! However I think how we term different structures needs to be discussed more deeply. I think we view decentralization too well, because technically we only need to divide the center for it to be characterized as decentralized. Distribution would perhaps be a better terming, but that would describe the extreme opposite of centralization. Terms like unsliced, sliced, chopped and powdered could make us see structures in a more nuanced manner. Here I’d say capitalism is sliced, whereas anarchism is chopped or powdered. Nazism and leninism are unsliced.