political spectrum

political spectrum (countable and uncountable, plural political spectra or political spectrums)

1. The various political viewpoints represented as a continuum, ranging from the extreme left to the extreme right.
   • 2011, Chloe Spencer, “Determining Your Place on the Political Spectrum”, in HuffPost:

     Every individual lies somewhere along this political spectrum, but many do not know exactly where they lie, or they label themselves as something that they may not be entirely.

• anarchism
• communism
• socialism
• liberalism
• centrism
• conservatism
• fascism
• Nazism