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Alternative for Germany and Juche
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. They agree within three points on CU, ID, CH. They diverge by eight points or more on EC.
Axis by axis
| Axis | AfD | Kimilsungism | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | −10 | 14 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +09 | +09 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +05 | +10 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +03 | +10 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +08 | +10 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | 00 | −02 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
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.
Kimilsungism · EC −10
At the floor. State ownership of everything, with unofficial markets tolerated because the ration system failed.
- ScholarshipThe public distribution system collapsed during the 1994–98 famine; jangmadang markets emerged and are now taxed rather than suppressed.
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.
Juche
1955– · North Korea
National self-reliance under a hereditary leader treated as the source of all social life; military-first priority.
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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