Cutline · Grade 8–9 · one of sixteen

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The Municipalist

collective · decentralized · national · gradual

Libertarian socialism

Build it from your own town upward. Co-ops, community land, credit unions, budgets that residents vote on directly. Nobody has to capture the national government, because that is not where this gets made.

What the four letters mean

C Ownershipcollectivenot private (P)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
N Horizonnationalnot internationalist (I)
G Methodgradualnot rupture (R)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyThe Mondragón worker co-ops in Spain; Porto Alegre in Brazil, where residents voted on the city budget; credit unions and housing co-ops.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

CAIRThe Permanent Revolutionary CANRThe Vanguard PAIRThe Shock Therapist PANRThe Strongman CAIGThe World Planner CANGThe Planner PAIGThe Technocrat PANGThe National Conservative CLIRThe Anarchist CLNRThe Syndicalist PLIRThe Exit Capitalist PLNRThe Secessionist CLIGThe Commoner CLNGThe Municipalist PLIGThe Free Trader PLNGThe Classical Liberal

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Municipalist is a box, and a box throws almost everything away. It keeps which side of each line you landed on and forgets how far. Two people in this box can be at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. Where the lines were drawn across them is a decision a person made.

The point

Cutline tells you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other quiz leaves out. And you are fourteen. You are supposed to change.

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