The Politics of Transhumanists

Today we're closing a survey I conducted of the members of the World Transhumanist Association. The survey has presumably reached about 1650 of the WTA's members (about half the email addresses of the 3000+ people who have signed up with us no longer work). The survey response rate is currently 580 or 36%. Not bad for nonprofits and great for consumer research.

On the question "Which of these best describes your political views?" we got these responses:

Libertarian socialist 7.2%
Progressive 6.1%
Social democrat 5.1%
Democratic socialist 4.7%
US-style "liberal" 4.7%
Green 3.1%
Left anarchist 2.1%
Radical 1.7%
Communist 1.0%
Left-wing subtotal 35.7%

Libertarian 10.1%
European Liberal 5.6%
Anarcho-capitalist 4.0%
Minarchist 1.0%
Randian/Objectivist 0.7%
Libertarian subtotal 21.4%

Other 9.4%
Upwinger/advocate of
future political
system 7.2%
Upwinger/other subtotal 16.6%

Not political 14.7%

Moderate 7.3%
Christian Democrat 1.0%
Conservative 2.4%
Far right 0.7%
Center-right subtotal 11.4%

Total 100.0%

So far I think we are seeing far more diversity in our ranks than I expected, which bodes well for the future.
If you want to participate and haven't yet, please contact me and fill out our membership form at:
http://www.transhumanism.org/join.htm