Pournelle Chart Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Pournelle Chart, developed by Jerry Pournelle, is a 2-dimensional coordinate system used to distinguish political ideologies. It is similar to the Nolan Chart, only that the X-axis refers to your feelings toward state and centralised government (farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil"), and the Y-axis referring to your belief in that problems in society will be solved once your ideology of choice is implemented (top being complete confidence that your political ideology can manage the problems in the world, bottom being mindless adherence to your ideology of choice)."Leftist" ideologies, such as (American) liberalism, socialism and communism, tend to be placed in the upper right-hand quadrant, conservatism, fascism and Nazism are to be placed in the lower right hand quadrant, classical anarchists are in the lower left hand corner, and libertarians and Objectivists are placed in the upper lefthand corner.