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Alternative for Germany and Italian Fascism

Measured distance across six axes

10.6 / 49.0 possible

The same broad family. They agree within three points on EC, CU, ID. No axis separates them by eight points or more.

Axis by axis

AxisAfDPNFGapReading
EC · Economic organisation+04+013AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
CU · Social and cultural order+09+081AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
AU · Organisation of power+05+094DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
SC · Scale of decision+03+096DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
ID · Rule of membership+08+071AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
CH · Method and tempo 00+077DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.

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 · CH 00

Coded at zero: parliamentary in method, with parts of the party under intelligence observation.

  • Documented act or statuteHas contested every federal and state election since 2013 and holds seats in every state parliament.

PNF · CH +07

Squad violence preceded office and the seizure was extra-parliamentary in form even though the appointment was legal.

  • Documented act or statuteBlackshirt squads killed hundreds of opponents between 1920 and 1922 before the March on Rome.
  • Documented act or statuteThe socialist deputy Matteotti was abducted and killed in 1924 after alleging electoral fraud.

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.

Italian Fascism

1922–1943 · Italy

The nation as an organic whole realised in the state; violence as regenerative; liberalism and Marxism both to be destroyed.

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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