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{this was taken from a post on a private page, thus i'm sharing this indirectly. all text outside these brackets are not my words but the words of the OP. this is a copy of the same post that i have on FB however, i figure since i'm sharing this around may as well have an excuse to have people join spacehey by sharing it here and linking this instead of my FB post every time.}
The origin of this spectrum (and the one you would have to look up on Wikipedia) is the Nolan Chart. The Nolan chart is the same spectrum as the political compass except flipped and rotated. The political compass is not really a thing, it is instead the name of the popular website with a quiz that maps quiz results onto a flipped and rotated Nolan chart. Here you can see the colors of the political compass flipped and rotated back to the original Nolan chart.
One of the many benefits of the nolan chart's orientation is 1) that you can see the traditional one-dimensional spectrum as a horizontal line with the traditional left on the left and traditional right on the right.
Another benefit is that it frames the dimensions more accurately than the vague choices of the political compass. 'left and right' should not be how you define left and right, that's a tautology. Framing the spectrum with civil/personal liberties/freedoms and economic/trade/barter liberties/freedom as the axes allows for far better simpler intuitive useful and reality-correlated analysis.
For example, it frames the right as differing from libertarian because they are less(not) in favor of civil/personal liberties/freedoms. This results in victimless crimes related to things like drugs, homosexuality, immigration, and prostitution.
By contrast, it frames the left as differing from libertarian because they are less(not) in favor economic/trade/barter liberties/freedom. This results in victimless crimes related to things like gambling, voluntary mutually beneficial trades and contracts (min wage, price gouging), restrictions on imports & exports (although both left and right are guilty of making this a victimless crime for decades at this point), and even private property itself.
Another benefit is that lib left and auth right are seen both as being partially authoritarian in their own ways. The political compass confuses many lib left by thinking that they are superior to auth right. Actually they are equal in their authoritarianism just on different things as explained above or seen below. They should both have the same prefix (or no prefix) of semi-auth-left, semi-auth-right (you choose). This also explains why many libertarians have defined themselves (in order to help laymen understand) as 'Socially liberal and Fiscally conservative'.
Special thanks to
{redacted for privacy reasons}
for inspiring this post with his assertion that left policy prescriptions do NOT create victimless crimes.
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