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QUESTIONNAIRE - Page 29

The method of filling in the questions and of scoring is explained in the first page of the Questionnaire, Activity.

E - SOCIAL & POLITICAL ATTITUDES

Trait 4 - SOCIALISM/CAPITALISM

  • No one should be allowed to buy privileges in education or medical care for his family.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • There is no such thing as a "class struggle" in this country today.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Too much is paid in tax by people with high incomes.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • The government is gradually taking away our basic freedom.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • True democracy is limited in this country because of the special privileges enjoyed by business and industry.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • It is clearly unfair that some people should inherit a large sum and get income from it without working.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • It is just as well that the struggle of life tends to weed out those who cannot stand the pace.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Most labor troubles are due to the work of radical agitators.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • The government is spending too much money on welfare, health and education.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Capitalism has worked well in this country and should not be changed.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • "Free enterprise" is another way of saying "exploitation of the workers".
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Industrial depressions can be prevented by proper government planning
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Ultimately private property should be abolished and all wealth shared equally.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • An international government would be a liability.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Speculators and banking institutions have been responsible for our economic difficulties.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Strikes should be made illegal.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Royalty and aristocracy encourage snobbishness and elitism and are not compatible with democracy.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • In disputes between workers and employers, I usually side with the workers.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • I believe it is possible, at least for psychics, to communicate to the dead and to foretell the future.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Telepathy is a commonplace occurrence.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • I don't believe anything I read in the papers.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • I believe there is evidence of a global conspiracy by international bankers.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • In practice, the rich and the poor are not equal before the law.
    Yes* | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Equal pay for equal work is long overdue; present arrangements are unfair for women workers.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • There exists a class of people whose family background and traditions make them most fitted to lead the country.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • No country can be called civilized that does not have a national health service paid by the taxes.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Most politicians have been bought off by private interests.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • In this country it is big business that controls the state, not the people.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Control of inflation is a higher priority than a low rate of unemployment.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • The welfare system gives too much help to people who refuse to do a proper day's work.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • It will always be preferable to have a few strong, able people running everything.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Private profit is the main motive for hard work.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • In capitalist countries there is an inevitable conflict between workers and employers.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Wealth should be distributed much more fairly than it is at present.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • The so-called underdog deserves little sympathy or help from successful people.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • In this country the most able rise to the top.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • A firm should produce what is most profitable, not what the government believes to be in the national interest.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • The practical man is of more use to society than the thinker.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Poverty, mental illness and other problems are a responsibility for the whole community.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Capitalism is immoral because it exploits the worker by failing to give him full value for his productive labor.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • The welfare system tends to destroy individual initiative.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • On the whole, workers in this country are treated fairly by their employers.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • The nationalization of major industries is likely to lead to inefficiency, bureaucracy and stagnation.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Business completion is necessary for technical progress and an expanding economy.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Most strikes are caused by bad management.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • We ought to have a world government to guarantee the welfare of all nations irrespective of the rights of any nation.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Economic security for all is counter to the ethos of capitalism.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Workers should have a say in the running of businesses in which they are employed.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Democracy depends fundamentally on the existence of free business enterprise.
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • The government must ensure above everything else that unemployment is kept very low.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • A national health service does not give doctors the opportunity to do their best for their patients.
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

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ANALYSIS

High scorers have a socialist outlook, with sympathy towards working people and resentment towards those who receive unearned income or excessive profits; they favor internationalism and the redistribution of wealth.

Low scorers have a capitalist orientation: a belief that talent and enterprise (as opposed to just hard work) should be especially rewarded, that private enterprise is more efficient than government control and that worker power is a threat to order and profits.

In the context of the other Traits in this Category, socialists tend to be radical and progressive; conservatives favor a traditional viewpoint on most matters and a capitalist economic system.

A tough-minded (mastery-oriented) conservative may tend towards fascism and racism. On the radical side, a tough-minded socialist may tend towards communism; a very permissive radical may tend towards anarchy.

Between these extremes are the majority of people, at least in Western democracies, with a range between Republican/Tory right-wing politics (tending to be religious); Democrats/Liberals in the center; and in Europe, Socialists/Labour on the left (with both the center and left tending to pacifism and environmental concerns).

How do you compare?

The norm on this trait is between 23-24 points (statistical approximation). This may be represented on the following scale:

Socialist 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 || 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Capitalist

Move on to the next Trait: LIBERTARIANISM

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