I am very curious about the left clump. What exactly do "individual communitarian" and "hierarchist egalitarian" mean? Do they mean something like what Marx and Lenin promised respectively? That is, "individual communitarian" being the Marxist future of everyone fully being free to pursue his/her self achievements, while "hierarchist egalitarian" being the Leninist future of cadre hierarchy commanding everyone in the system? If so, can we see communism as some sort of atavism, not unlike what Rousseau once fancied?
These are self-reported values based on survey data. It seems likely that these are an exercise by the PR department in order to virtue signal - rather than anything to do with people's actual values as determined by revealed preference theory.
As applied to politics, it seems to me that the most relevant divisions are libertarian/authoritarian and individualist/collectivist. Most ideologies fall on a continuum between the extremes. Libertarianism and individualism tend to go together, as do authoritarianism and collectivism, but there are exceptions. For instance, anarcho-communists are both libertarians and collectivists.
I am very curious about the left clump. What exactly do "individual communitarian" and "hierarchist egalitarian" mean? Do they mean something like what Marx and Lenin promised respectively? That is, "individual communitarian" being the Marxist future of everyone fully being free to pursue his/her self achievements, while "hierarchist egalitarian" being the Leninist future of cadre hierarchy commanding everyone in the system? If so, can we see communism as some sort of atavism, not unlike what Rousseau once fancied?
These are self-reported values based on survey data. It seems likely that these are an exercise by the PR department in order to virtue signal - rather than anything to do with people's actual values as determined by revealed preference theory.
As applied to politics, it seems to me that the most relevant divisions are libertarian/authoritarian and individualist/collectivist. Most ideologies fall on a continuum between the extremes. Libertarianism and individualism tend to go together, as do authoritarianism and collectivism, but there are exceptions. For instance, anarcho-communists are both libertarians and collectivists.
Linked from the paper is a kind of appendix, a "Supporting Information" document that does name the variables.
That does name many variables, but I can't figure out which ones go with which clusters.
Just another question: How did they manage to make the map two-dimensional?
Which of this group will be more interested in life extension - immortality?