Ideology guide
8values Ideologies List
8values matches a result profile to stored ideology coordinates. The closest ideology label is useful for comparison, but the four axis scores remain the fuller result.
Scores come first
The primary output of 8values is the set of Economic, Diplomatic, Civil, and Societal scores. Those numbers show where answers land between paired values.
An ideology name compresses those coordinates into one familiar label. That can make a result easier to discuss, but it loses the detail that makes multidimensional tests useful.
How the match is chosen
The results page compares your four scores with the ideology profiles available to the quiz and chooses the profile with the smallest distance from your result.
It does not ask whether you personally use that ideology name, whether every issue fits it, or whether two ideologies overlap in practice. It is a coordinate match inside this test model.
Ideology labels in 8values
The quiz currently compares results against these stored ideology profiles. They are labels for nearest-coordinate matching, not endorsements or complete definitions.
- Anarcho-Communism
- Libertarian Communism
- Trotskyism
- Marxism
- De Leonism
- Leninism
- Stalinism/Maoism
- Religious Communism
- State Socialism
- Theocratic Socialism
- Religious Socialism
- Democratic Socialism
- Revolutionary Socialism
- Libertarian Socialism
- Anarcho-Syndicalism
- Left-Wing Populism
- Theocratic Distributism
- Distributism
- Social Liberalism
- Christian Democracy
- Social Democracy
- Progressivism
- Anarcho-Mutualism
- National Totalitarianism
- Global Totalitarianism
- Technocracy
- Centrist
- Liberalism
- Religious Anarchism
- Right-Wing Populism
- Moderate Conservatism
- Reactionary
- Social Libertarianism
- Libertarianism
- Anarcho-Egoism
- Nazism
- Autocracy
- Fascism
- Capitalist Fascism
- Conservatism
- Neo-Liberalism
- Classical Liberalism
- Authoritarian Capitalism
- State Capitalism
- Neo-Conservatism
- Fundamentalism
- Libertarian Capitalism
- Market Anarchism
- Objectivism
- Totalitarian Capitalism
- Ultra-Capitalism
- Anarcho-Capitalism
Why a label can feel wrong
- Political labels have different meanings across countries, histories, and communities.
- Questionnaire answers may capture priorities without capturing policy detail.
- The nearest stored ideology may still be far from your own self-description.
- Two profiles can look similar on one axis and diverge sharply on another.
If the label surprises you, compare the underlying axis bars first. The political values hub explains the value pairs one by one.