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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://vis.social/users/infobeautiful/statuses/116659382105815722">Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 04:09:49 JST</a><a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful" title="infobeautiful@vis.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/206737-48-20231101144627.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Information Is Beautiful" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Information Is Beautiful</a></section><article><p>Just how authoritarian was your favourite 19th century writer / thinker? </p><p>(by Instagram user: @mapsenthusiast)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6437872#notice-12673304">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-05-30T04:09:49+09:00" title="Saturday, 30-May-2026 04:09:49 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116659382105815722" rel="external" title="Sent from vis.social via ActivityPub">vis.social</a></span></span><a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116659382105815722">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6126959">A political compass style chart titled “19th Century Writers/Thinkers on the Political Compass” placing notable figures into four colored quadrants defined by left versus right on the horizontal axis and authoritarian versus libertarian on the vertical axis. The top left red quadrant represents authoritarian left and includes figures such as Nechaev, Rodbertus, Blanc, Chernyshevsky, and Lassalle. The top right blue quadrant represents authoritarian right and features thinkers including de Maistre, Carlyle, Gogol, Kierkegaard, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Scott, Manzoni, and Goethe. The bottom left green quadrant represents libertarian left and contains figures such as Marx, Engels, Dickens, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dumas, Eliot, Ibsen, Heine, Shevchenko, Tolstoy, Proudhon, and Bakunin. The bottom right yellow quadrant represents libertarian right and includes Nietzsche, Conrad, Hayek, and Lord Byron. Each person is shown as a small circular portrait with their name beside it, arranged spatially within the quadrants to suggest relative ideological positioning. The axes are labeled with arrows indicating “Authoritarian” at the top, “Libertarian” at the bottom, “Left” on the left side, and “Right” on the right side, creating a visual map of where these 19th century writers and thinkers are placed within a simplified political spectrum.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/vissocial/media_attachments/files/116/659/381/972/072/871/original/074f68358a66eb2f.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/vissocial/media_attachments/files/116/659/381/972/072/871/original/074f68358a66eb2f.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 04:09:49 JST Information Is Beautiful
Just how authoritarian was your favourite 19th century writer / thinker?
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1. A political compass style chart titled “19th Century Writers/Thinkers on the Political Compass” placing notable figures into four colored quadrants defined by left versus right on the horizontal axis and authoritarian versus libertarian on the vertical axis. The top left red quadrant represents authoritarian left and includes figures such as Nechaev, Rodbertus, Blanc, Chernyshevsky, and Lassalle. The top right blue quadrant represents authoritarian right and features thinkers including de Maistre, Carlyle, Gogol, Kierkegaard, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Scott, Manzoni, and Goethe. The bottom left green quadrant represents libertarian left and contains figures such as Marx, Engels, Dickens, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dumas, Eliot, Ibsen, Heine, Shevchenko, Tolstoy, Proudhon, and Bakunin. The bottom right yellow quadrant represents libertarian right and includes Nietzsche, Conrad, Hayek, and Lord Byron. Each person is shown as a small circular portrait with their name beside it, arranged spatially within the quadrants to suggest relative ideological positioning. The axes are labeled with arrows indicating “Authoritarian” at the top, “Libertarian” at the bottom, “Left” on the left side, and “Right” on the right side, creating a visual map of where these 19th century writers and thinkers are placed within a simplified political spectrum.
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