Vicky Polls 1: Ideology

[k-onmmunist]

Decided to start a poll based around options from the Victoria: Revolutions video game. First is ideology. Vote and comment

Communist for me.

[Bacon King]

Liberal, or possibly socialist.

I do know though that I have low militancy but very high consciousness.

[k-onmmunist]

Liberal, or possibly socialist.

I do know though that I have low militancy but very high consciousness.

Haha. I reckon I have high militancy and high conciousness.

[Free Palestine]

What are the definitions for those ideologies?  Not sure whether "liberal" would mean classical liberal, or liberal in the modern sense.  I suppose "anarcho-liberal" would be libertarian?

[tpfkaw]

Anarcho-liberal = libertarian, right?

That, I suppose.

[k-onmmunist]

What are the definitions for those ideologies?  Not sure whether "liberal" would mean classical liberal, or liberal in the modern sense.  I suppose "anarcho-liberal" would be libertarian?

Liberal can be either - many liberal parties start in 1836 with 'laissez-faire' as their official economic ideology (though a few, like the Partido Liberal of Brazil, start with 'interventionism' instead) and switch to 'interventionism' c.1900

Anarcho-Liberal is probably libertarians yes, but its hard to tell... when they get into power, a dictatorship is established bizarrely enough. I guess the game can't simulate anarchy though.

[Bacon King]

I've always assumed that Vicky's "Anarcho-Liberal Presidential Dictatorship" was something like Revolutionary France's government.

[opebo]

Can't answer, never heard of the game.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I voted "Conservative" before I saw that it wasn't based on modern times/real life. What is the definition of Conservative vs. Liberal in this case?

[RI]

There is no communitarian option. Alas.

[k-onmmunist]

I voted "Conservative" before I saw that it wasn't based on modern times/real life. What is the definition of Conservative vs. Liberal in this case?

Well, in Vicky 1836, conservatives were in support of some  government intervention (as opposed to laissez-faire liberals), moralism, a cautious attitude towards immigration and pro-military. Still, there are plenty of variants... protectionist Conservatism vs free trade Conservatism is about 50/50, and many Conservative parties go laissez-faire after 1900.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Depends. Liberal I guess, hoping that they are not laisser-faire bigots.

[Hash]

Probably liberal, but given the time period it likely refers to the oligarchic 'liberalism' in the Spanish mold.

[ilikeverin]

I fit very poorly into the Vicky classifications ("boring American liberal" doesn't fit very well in any of these ), but I'd probably be a Socialist.