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AKP and Anarcho-Capitalism
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on AU, SC, ID.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Justice and Development Party | Rothbard | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | +10 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +01 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | −10 | 18 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | −10 | 17 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +06 | −02 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −01 | +03 | 4 | Differs | Real 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.
Justice and Development Party · AU +08
Constitutional change by referendum plus mass replacement of judiciary and media after 2016.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2017 referendum replaced the parliamentary system with an executive presidency and abolished the office of prime minister.
- Documented act or statuteOver four thousand judges and prosecutors were dismissed after the 2016 coup attempt.
Rothbard · AU −10
At the floor with anarcho-communism, from the opposite economic pole. The pairing is the strongest single refutation of the one-dimensional model.
- Comparative datasetBoth traditions reject the state as such; they differ by nineteen points on the economic axis.
Justice and Development Party · SC +07
Coded +7: elected metropolitan authorities constrained and trustees appointed over opposition-held councils.
- Documented act or statuteState-appointed trustees replaced elected mayors in dozens of south-eastern municipalities from 2016.
Rothbard · SC −10
At the floor with anarcho-communism: no unit above voluntary association.
- Programme textDefence, adjudication and law are supplied by competing firms serving individual clients.
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.
AKP
2001– · Turkey
Conservative religious identity, national sovereignty, and a strong presidency claiming direct popular mandate.
Anarcho-Capitalism
1970– · United States
All state functions including courts, police and defence should be supplied competitively on the market; taxation is theft.
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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