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In Political Compass, "left" and "right" are about economics (so "left" is socialist and "right" is capitalist), while "libertarian" and "authoritarian" are only about personal freedom, not economic freedom (high economic freedom aka free market is "right" in this chart).
4. Geoism/Georgism is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own the value they produce themselves, economic value derived from land and other natural resources should belong equally to all members of society. This seems to have aspects of both left- and right-wing thought. Where would it be placed on the Political Compass?
The classical Pace news Limited Political Compass chart's axes are labeled "Economic (Left–Right) and Social (Authoritarian–Libertarian)". Certain things are labels that don't actually exist in either academic, or even wide cultural, political discourse. There's no such thing as "ultra-capitalism", outside of some weird Wiki I never heard of.
And apparently to avoid the fitting label of right wing and to unjustly dress themselves in nicer language they basically turn the political spectrum by 180 and pretend the left right spectrum goes, with respect to the political compass from the top left to the bottom right. So from most state controlled economy to most market controlled economy.
Classical left/right separation accords to social positions, not to economic positions. There's an attempt into separating this outdated separation into a plane called the political compass. In this system, libertarian isn't left or right, but orthogonal to it, meaning it's something different. There is however one possibility to set liberal ...
2. Question is "Is left leaning same as being liberal". Short answer: NO. longer explanation: The ideology of right and left evolve and "localize" according to culture and goe-political needs. I.e. in US, so call "democrat" is actually "right leaning" that support neoliberalism endorse by the republicans.
Naturally those who've had good luck with current political models provide the most funding, (i.e. "mainstream" political science), so most political research uses the models those sponsors like best. But those happy satisfied few are less likely to experience puzzlement sufficient to sponsor or inspire better models for posterity.
Some of those charts illustrate and explain the reason why horseshoe theory fits pretty well (this one is from Political Compass organization): If you notice, the left and right both have an independent second dimension - liberty vs. authoritarianism or totalitarianism (in other words, how much power an individual has vs. the state).
In the field of political debate; the political ideologies or positions often classified either as "Left Wing" (consisting of secular/ atheist/ libertarian/ egalitarian/ socialist/ globalist etc. ideologies) and the "right wing" (consisting of nationalist/ patriotic/ religious/ conservative/ Authoritative etc. ideoligies).
In modern times, it has become a rallying flag of various Conservative and Libertarian groups, with a distinct anti liberal-left sentiment. Reasons for that are simple: It represents a willingness to preserve the Second Amendment , not only the right to bear arms, but also the right to form militia and implicitly to defend liberty (with arms if ...