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Bolsheviks and Global Greens
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on ID. They diverge by eight points or more on AU, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | RSDLP(b) | Global Greens | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −09 | −05 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | −05 | −09 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | −06 | 14 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | 00 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | −07 | −08 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +10 | −04 | 14 | 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.
RSDLP(b) · AU +08
Other parties, factions and the elected assembly were removed within four years.
- Documented act or statuteThe Constituent Assembly, in which the Socialist Revolutionaries held a majority, was dissolved by force after one sitting in January 1918.
- Documented act or statuteThe Cheka was established in December 1917, six weeks after the seizure of power.
Global Greens · AU −06
Coded strongly negative: rotation, mandates and referenda were founding organisational commitments, not later additions.
- Programme textThe 2001 Global Greens Charter names participatory democracy as one of six principles.
- Documented act or statuteDie Grünen operated office rotation and imperative mandates in its early parliamentary practice.
RSDLP(b) · CH +10
An armed seizure of power against a provisional government, followed by civil war.
- Documented act or statutePower was taken by armed insurrection in October 1917 rather than through the election held the following month.
Global Greens · CH −04
Coded −4: non-violence is one of the six principles.
- Programme textNon-violence is named in the Charter as a method binding on member parties.
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.
Bolsheviks
1903–1924 · Russia
A disciplined vanguard party seizes power in the name of the working class and imposes socialism from above.
Global Greens
2001– · Worldwide
Ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, non-violence, sustainability, respect for diversity.
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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