this feels incomplete in many ways, but also like it's getting at something important

In my head I’ve started referring to political quadrants in terms of properties of their preferred coordination networks.

Top two are centralized. Bottom two are distributed.

Left two are symmetric (aka egalitarian). Right two are asymmetric. https://t.co/qiTfW9PSQA

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this feels incomplete in many ways, but also like it's getting at something important
https://x.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1942767609239183370

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I think it would make the most sense if the labels were:

                       Hierarchical
Symmetrical                     Asymmetrical
                    Non-hierarchical

This is neat and I do agree that these coordination mechanisms all exist and are different from each other but I’m not sure they fit neatly into these boxes. The main one that seems off is the bottom right. Why does this have anything to do with the economic right? It makes no mention of money. And if “capitalism” exists then it will naturally form something that looks like the top right, which I’m still not sure is explicitly right wing. And the top left quadrant could also be right wing depending on what is being given back to the smallest nodes. 

So yeah, cute idea. Worth exploring more. Definitely shouldn’t be on a four quadrant graph with these labels

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Nice input. I wondered about how the central nodes show who controls and where decisions are taken.

I don’t think there’s too much difference in applied left and right politics. It’s an elite/exclusive group who believes they have the answers which pushes coordination/decision making towards a centralized or hub-and-spoke system.

Consensus decision making requires time. That makes it not efficient. Grow too fast and the process breaks down. Just look at the European Union. All decision making used to be consensual. When the 10 Easter European countries were added, voting moved to majority.

It shows power dynamics and what left and right prefer and encourage.