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Wilpert's Integral Map of Political Idealogies

Posted on Nov 11th, 2006 by ebbandflow : New-Media Peacemaker ebbandflow
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A friend asked me if there was a map of political idealogies that was more of a circular map rather than a straight line between the left and the right.

I sent him Gregory Wilbert's map above based upon Ken Wilber's Integral Map with four quadrants.
The X axis is Internal vs. External
The Y axis is Individual vs. Collective

  • Internal/Individual Upper Left (UL) = Psychology
  • Internal/Collective Lower Left (LL) = Sociology
  • External/Individual Upper Right (UR) = Behaviorism
  • External/Collective Lower Right (LR) = Systems

Republicans/Libertarians focus on inner world -- personal motivation, work
hard and have an entreprenurial spirit rather than big government

Liberals/Progressives focus more on external systems -- support systems
for the collective.

Both are important, and centrists and independents usually see this and
prefer not to align themselves with either extreme.

But the map above also shows the nature of the extreme political ideologies:

  • Libertarianism -- Personal intention and self-interest w/ small government (UL)
  • Facism -- Government with uniform cultural value systems (LL)
  • Anarchism -- no government power structure and power of individual (UR)
  • Socialism -- collective government structures serve society (LR)

These following articles below give an overview of Wilber's quadrant system
which might help give some context to the Integral Map of political idealogies
above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQAL#Quadrants
http://www.integralleadership.com/quadrants.htm
http://www.formlessmountain.com/quads.htm
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