Are Alternative for Germany and Bolsheviks the same thing?

Measured across six independent axes they are 26.7 apart out of a possible 49.0, which is opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on AU. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, ID, CH.

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Alternative for Germany and Bolsheviks

Measured distance across six axes

26.7 / 49.0 possible

Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on AU. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, ID, CH.

Axis by axis

Axis	AfD	RSDLP(b)	Gap		Reading
EC · Economic organisation	+04	−09	13	Diverges	Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
CU · Social and cultural order	+09	−05	14	Diverges	Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
AU · Organisation of power	+05	+08	3	Agrees	Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
SC · Scale of decision	+03	+07	4	Differs	Real difference, but not the dividing line.
ID · Rule of membership	+08	−07	15	Diverges	Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
CH · Method and tempo	00	+10	10	Diverges	Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.

Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →

The evidence behind the widest gaps

A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.

AfD · EC +04

Coded +4: founded on euro policy, now mixed between market liberalism and eastern regional welfarism.

Programme textProgramme commitments to abolish inheritance tax and to leave the euro sit alongside eastern demands for higher pensions.

RSDLP(b) · EC −09

Banks, land and large industry were taken into state ownership within a year of the seizure of power.

Documented act or statuteThe Decree on Land abolished private landownership in November 1917.
Documented act or statuteBanks were nationalised in December 1917 and large-scale industry in June 1918.

1 more artefact on the full entry →

AfD · CU +09

Coded +9: national identity, Leitkultur and opposition to what the party calls gender ideology.

Programme textProgramme rejects multiculturalism explicitly and opposes recognition of gender beyond the binary.

RSDLP(b) · CU −05

Culturally radical in the first phase: the most permissive family and gender law then in existence anywhere.

Documented act or statuteDivorce on demand, civil marriage and the legalisation of abortion were introduced between 1917 and 1920.
Documented act or statuteThe criminalisation of homosexuality was removed with the tsarist code in 1922.

What this comparison does not establish

Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.

Alternative for Germany

2013– · Germany

Founded against euro bailouts, reoriented around immigration, national identity and rejection of climate policy.

Bolsheviks

1903–1924 · Russia

A disciplined vanguard party seizes power in the name of the working class and imposes socialism from above.

Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.

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