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Bukelismo and Classical Marxism
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on SC. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, ID.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Nuevas Ideas | Scientific socialism | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +05 | −10 | 15 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +06 | −06 | 12 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | +02 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +06 | +04 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +03 | −09 | 12 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +02 | +08 | 6 | 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.
Nuevas Ideas · EC +05
Coded +5: investment promotion and the bitcoin experiment alongside an IMF programme and high public debt.
- Documented act or statuteBitcoin was made legal tender in 2021 and its mandatory-acceptance status removed under the 2025 IMF agreement.
Scientific socialism · EC −10
At the floor: abolition of private property in the means of production.
- Programme textThe Manifesto states the theory of the communists in a single sentence: abolition of private property.
Nuevas Ideas · CU +06
Coded +6: a security-first social order with conservative positions on family policy.
- Documented act or statuteGender studies content was removed from the public school curriculum in 2024.
Scientific socialism · CU −06
Coded −6: the bourgeois family, religion and nationality all treated as historically transient.
- Programme textThe Manifesto answers the charge of abolishing the family and of abolishing countries by accepting both.
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.
Bukelismo
2019– · El Salvador
Mass incarceration of suspected gang members under a permanent state of exception, sold as the trade of civil liberties for physical safety.
Classical Marxism
1848–1914 · Germany, Europe
History driven by class struggle; capitalism generates its own gravediggers; proletarian revolution abolishes classes and eventually the state.
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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