Feb. 8 class

I did the political compass, and result was

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74

I think it is in reason for me. This posotion is similar to Gandhi.
In the class, we discussed some political concepts, especially socialism and democracy and capitalism. From fall term I'm interested Politics as a major, so now I'm taking the International Politics. So now I feel this relation between ARW class and IP is good.
Japan now advocates democracy, and its economic system is capitalism. However, I think now we can say that we have the socialism system like medicare or annual pension. But if Japanese government states that Japan is socialism state, it evoke extreme reaction from all over the world. The reason why such reaction is easily considered is that we experienced the Cold War in history. As Rab said in the class, we can advocate the very basic idea of communism, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need", because it seems good society in which people help each other. But we don't like communism. I think it is because if we adopt communism, we lost almost all liberty like where we live or what we buy or what we listen or what we say. It's not comfortable, of course. What I want to mean here is that this catch phrase represent only good aspect of communism, financial equality and helping each other, but it'S not all of communism.