Category:Off The Compass

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This page is about ideologies considered so extreme, they lie beyond the boundaries of the traditional Political Compass. For the ideology about rejecting on-compass ideologies, see Anti-Realism.

Ideologies that are Off The Compass, collectively known as off-compass ideologies, are ideologies recognized within the PolCompBall community to be so radical, they exist beyond the limits of the Political Compass. These ideologies take the axes of the Political Compass to their logical extremes, such as extreme authoritarianism in the form of Orwellian totalitarianism or extreme laissez-faire capitalism manifesting as Social Darwinism.

The Off-Compass designation originates from the common understanding of the Political Compass as possessing a finite scope, with Marxism–Leninism (or Stalinism), Authoritarian (or National) Capitalism, Anarcho-Communism and Anarcho-Capitalism representing the four corners of the Political Compass. Ideologies with more extreme characteristics than these are consequently regarded as off-compass ideologies.

Off-compass ideologies received limited recognition before their popularization within the Polcompball community in 2020, although early Political Compass memes acknowledged Ingsoc and Anarcho-Egoism as being off-compass with respect to the civic axis.

Communalism and Social Darwinism were developed by Monkeysszz to represent the off-compass economic left and right wing respectively. Ingsoc, Egoism, Communalism and Social Darwinism feature on the r/politicalcompassmemes post Always bigger fish, representing off-compass unities. This post was later cross-posted on r/polcompball by TheGhostofInky.

Monkeysszz and StormTiger2304 subsequently designed and developed five more ideologies that were considered off-compass on the statist, economic and cultural axes: Hive-Mind Collectivism (Ingsoc Communalism), Kraterocracy (Ingsoc Darwinism), Soulism (Egoist Communalism), Avaritionism (Egoist Darwinism), and Anti-Realism. The off-compass ideologies with respect to the technological axis, Primalism and Post-Humanism, were designed by ErinIsHere. Most recently overall, other notable, community-developed off-compass ideologies that do not represent axial extremes are also included in this category, for example Senatorialism.

Realicide, or Grej, is a fanmade spin-off of Jreg's Centricide series, voiced and directed by ErinIsHere, featuring illustrations by mothsprite and music by Farthys. The series focuses on Ingsoc, Egoism, Communalism and Social Darwinism uniting to eliminate on-compass ideologies despite their stark mutual differences.

• Off-compass Left/Socialism - Rejects not only private property but also personal property in the interest of total equality and welfare of every individual.
  • Exemplified by Communalism.
• Off-compass Right/Capitalism - Wants to legalize murder, theft, torture, hierarchy and all else that produces survival of the fittest. Often, but not always, wants to privatize everything.
  • Exemplified by Social Darwinism.
• Off-Compass Libertarian - Wants to not only abolish government but also all laws, morality and other things that limit individual freedom.
  • Exemplified by Anarcho-Egoism, Anarcho-Nihilism and Post-Anarchism.
• Off-Compass Authoritarian - Wants a totalitarian state that controls the entire lives of their citizens, advocates mass surveillance, extreme censorship (including abolishing words and ideas), constant war (not always) and very punitive justice like torture and public executions.
  • Exemplified by Ingsoc, Neo-Bolshevism and Death Worship.
• Off-Compass Primitivism - Wants to reject everything made by civilization and return to an animal state of living and consciousness.
  • Exemplified by Primalism.
• Off-Compass Technology - Wants to reject biological life and replace it with artificial intelligence and other purely technological aspects.
  • Exemplified by Post-Humanism.
• Off-Compass Progressivism - Wants to destroy all culture of the past and rewrite it in the interest of complete structural change.
  • Exemplified by Noveltism.
• Off-Compass Traditionalism - Wants to recover and preserve all culture of the past and reject any and every development that came afterward.
  • Exemplified by Antiquitism.
• Off-Compass Globalism - Wants to unite the entire world under one government, military, currency, bank, and so on. In the future they want to unite the galaxy, and if it's technically possible, the entire universe.
  • Exemplified by Cosmocracy.
• Off-Compass Nationalism - Believes that their nation is superior and can conquer, subjugate and genocide others. In the future they may want go into space and conquer alien races.
  • Exemplified by Conquestalism.