Original sentence: "Leftist" ideologies, such as (American) liberalism, socialism and communism, are placed by Pournelle in the upper right-hand quadrant of low liberty and high rationalism.Conservatism, fascism and Nazism are placed in the lower right hand quadrant of low liberty and low rationalism.The Pournelle Chart has liberty (a dimension similar to the diagonal of the Nolan chart, with those on the left seeking liberty and those on the right focusing control, farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil") perpendicular to Rationalism, defined here as the belief in planned social progress (with those higher up believing that there are problems with society that can be rationally solved, and those lower down skeptical of such approaches
Edited sentence: "Leftist" ideologies, such as (American) liberalism, socialism and communism, tend to be placed in the upper right-hand quadrant of low liberty and high rationalism.Conservatism, fascism and Nazism are to be placed in the lower right hand quadrant of low liberty and low rationalism.The Pournelle Chart has liberty (a dimension similar to the diagonal of the Nolan chart, with those on the left seeking liberty and those on the right focusing control, farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil") perpendicular to Rationalism, the belief in the power of one's political philosophy of choice (with those on the top believing that all the evils their ideology attempts to fight would go away if only their ideals were instituted, and those at the bottom reduced to blind, celebratory attachment to their ideology for its own sake -- the fascist who will now do anything to celebrate "greatness", the anarchist given to tossing bombs around for the fun of it)