I took a test on http://www.politicalcompass.org/index and got my political compass as follow:
Your political compassEconomic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.79
According to its another graph, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama and me are in the same position. it is interesting.But I don't think Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama are communist(left),