That will surely take much time to figure out what features nudge a species’ political beliefs towards one extreme or another. Perhaps some species would be even missing certain axes, whereas others would have more of them?
you don’t want to compare different possibilities?
There’s a clear distinction of categorizing the possibilities, their attributes and what psychologically different species evolution might produce, compared to starting a major debate on which ideologies on earth are good (and to some extent what their effects are as those points will also be contested).
That latter discussion heats up fast as people from different ideological bubbles will clash. And that is not something we want here as it takes up a ton of moderating resources to even try to keep such a thing civil. So we just ban it entirely so that we can keep things clean without massive amount of moderating effort.
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People already get tunnel vision on Earth when thinking about ideologies - just look at the Political Compass Test. Ideologies are extremely complex, and shoehorning them into whatever’s prominent in our current culture just wouldn’t work.
Also, even if analogous ideologies to ours developed, they might still have different impacts. A species more inclined towards community gain as opposed to individual gain would probably be more economically productive under a communist system as humans were. That’s another factor to consider - is an ideology the same ideology when it’s in a fundamentally different context from whatever you’re comparing it to?
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That’s why “alien ideologies” probably shouldn’t have 1:1 names with their Terran “counterparts”, perhaps instead they could be called “(ideology)-like” or something, as they might not share all the attributes with their “counterparts”.
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