Am I a Socialist Quiz
Questions: 15 · 10 minutes
1. A local employer closes suddenly, leaving hundreds of people without income. What should income support aim to do?
Provide brief emergency help while expecting personal savings and rapid job seeking to carry most of the burden
Offer modest means-tested payments linked closely to job-search requirements
Replace a meaningful share of lost income and provide retraining until suitable work is available
Guarantee a secure living income and access to essential services regardless of immediate employment prospects
2. A workplace must choose between higher executive bonuses, employee pay, and new equipment. How should the choice be made?
Senior management should decide because it is accountable for the organization's performance
Management should gather employee feedback before making the final allocation
An elected employee council should make the decision jointly with management
The workforce should decide through a democratic process with equal voting rights
3. Which principle comes closest to your view of productive property such as large firms, infrastructure, and natural resources?
Private ownership should remain the norm, with public ownership used only exceptionally
Private ownership should dominate, while a few strategic services remain public
Private, public, and cooperative ownership should all play substantial roles
Major productive assets should generally be owned socially and governed for shared benefit
4. A profitable company considers closing one plant to improve returns. Who should have authority over the decision?
Owners and executives should decide after meeting their contractual obligations
Management should decide after consulting employees and the local community
Elected worker representatives should share the decision and be able to demand alternatives
Workers and affected communities should exercise democratic control over such a major decision
5. A city must modernize its electricity grid while keeping service dependable and affordable. Which ownership model would you favor?
Several private providers competing for customers under general consumer rules
A private concession operating under strict price and reliability regulation
A mixed system combining public infrastructure with regulated private suppliers
A publicly or community-owned utility accountable to residents
6. Lawmakers are deciding how app-based delivery workers should be represented. Which policy would you prefer?
Preserve independent contracting and let each worker negotiate whether the arrangement suits them
Keep contractor status but require portable benefits and minimum payment protections
Give workers broad employee rights and access to collective bargaining
Establish sector-wide bargaining and democratic worker representation in platform governance
7. Your region has a severe housing shortage. Which long-term approach would you prioritize?
Make private construction easier and let added supply reduce pressure over time
Encourage private construction while requiring some below-market homes
Combine private building with a major expansion of public and nonprofit housing
Build a housing system led primarily by public, community, and resident-owned providers
8. A lawful strike disrupts a service you regularly use. Which response is closest to yours?
I would prioritize restoring the service quickly through mediation and limits on disruption
I would support the strike only after every less disruptive bargaining route had been exhausted
I would accept significant inconvenience when it is necessary for workers to bargain effectively
I would actively support the workers because meaningful strike power may require public disruption
9. How should very large inheritances be treated?
They should pass largely untaxed because families should control assets they accumulated
They should face a moderate tax while preserving most inherited wealth
They should be taxed progressively to fund broad public opportunities
They should face steep limits or taxation to prevent lasting concentrations of economic power
10. A profitable manufacturer is being sold because its founder is retiring. Which proposal appeals to you most?
Finance an employee cooperative that would own and govern the company
Sell to an outside investor likely to provide capital and preserve competitiveness
Create a public-cooperative partnership with employees holding a major ownership stake
Let the management team buy it while giving employees profit-sharing rights
11. A government has enough new revenue to expand education and childcare. Which use would you favor?
Offer limited vouchers to households with the lowest incomes
Lower taxes so families can choose and purchase the services they prefer
Fund universal access while allowing private providers to operate alongside public ones
Build comprehensive, free public education and childcare as shared social guarantees
12. Essential medicines are repeatedly scarce and expensive. Which response best matches your preference?
Use temporary subsidies while retaining the existing patent-based private market
Rely mainly on competition, patents, and price signals to encourage greater supply
Add strong public purchasing and a publicly backed producer alongside private firms
Develop publicly or cooperatively owned production planned around health needs
13. Coworkers begin organizing a union after schedules and workloads change without consultation. What would you be most inclined to do?
Keep negotiating individually because personal flexibility matters more to me than collective representation
Hear the organizers out but support only a limited advisory employee group
Support the union if a clear majority wants collective bargaining
Help organize because workers should have durable collective power over working conditions
14. Which healthcare arrangement most closely matches your priorities?
Universal public coverage with private options available for additional services
Mostly individual or employer-purchased plans, backed by a basic hardship safety net
A universal, predominantly public system providing care according to need
Means-tested public help combined with a mainly private insurance market
15. Which statement best reflects your view of economic inequality?
Differences are acceptable if everyone has a basic safety net and rules are fair
Large gaps are concerning mainly when they block social mobility or reflect discrimination
Government should substantially narrow gaps through progressive taxes, services, and labor standards
Extreme wealth concentration is itself a power imbalance that society should actively prevent